delete file contents before writing?
| From: | Jas | Date: | Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:37:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | delete file contents before writing? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Not sure how I could do this as I could not find a functions on php.net to
allow me to first delete the entire contents of a file "before" writting the
changes supplied by a textarea. Here is what I have thus far:
Page one - Form:
<?php
$file_name = 'blank.php';
$open_file = fopen("$file_name","rw");
if (!$open_file) {
die("cannot open $file_name");
} else {
$read_file = fread($open_file, filesize($file_name));
$strip_php = eregi_replace("<","&a&", $read_file);
fclose($open_file);
}
?>
<form name="edit_passwords" method="post"
action="edit_passwords.php">
<textarea name="passwords" cols="60" rows="7"><?php echo
$strip_php;
?></textarea>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="save" value="save">
</form>
Page two - open file and write changes:
<?php
if (!$passwords) {
header ("Location: index.php");
} else {
$file_name= "blank.php";
$file_open = fopen($file_name, "r+");
eregi_replace("&a&","<", $file_open);
#eregi_replace("\","", $file_open);
fwrite($file_open, $passwords);
print ("$passwords was written to $file_name"); }
?>
As of right now it opens the file and writes your changes, however it simply
goes to the end of the file then begins writting. I would like to delete
the contents of the file, then write the changes.
Any help or pointers are appreciated!
Jas