Re: text file reading and overwrite

> Have a problem in reading a text file and displaying it in a text box > area,also what function should i used to overwrite an existing text file. For <textarea> type text boxes, use the following - <textarea>$var</textarea> Please note that if you include *any* kind of spaces or tabs or other characters between the textarea tags that it will dump them into the text area as well. i.e. - <textarea> $var </textarea> The 'action' file of the form will receive the following (unless the contents are modified of course) - "\n $var\n " For <input> type text boxes, use the following - <input type='text' value='$var' /> As to reading a file, see Example 1 under fgets(). For deleting files, see unlink(). Patrick p.s. you'll want to html encode $var before dumping it into either one of these or else the contents of $var could mess up the html in the page.