HELP

[Anon]

this is rather hard to explain so please bare with me.
I create a html form that would POST to a php file, which allows me to write to a TXT file, this works ok.
But the real problem is how to view that txt file. I tried to create a php that has FOPEN ("text.txt", "r"); to read the file but it doesnt show anything but an error message. another problem is when i tried refresh the php that show the TXT file, the TXT file itself does not refresh only the php containg it refresh

I need a solution for : Viewing a TXT file in a HTML or Php file, and refresh that TXT file every 5 sec or so.
This could be done in some simple database but I dont know data base... i'm learning so please specific.

[matto]

hm, first:
you can use the file() function instead of fopen - fread - fclose, that's more comfortable. it reads the entire text file into an array, one line per element. for example:

$data = file("data.txt");

foreach($data as $line)
echo trim($line)."<br>\n";

as for the refresh, I would suggest doing it via the html meta commands.