Re: can PHP do what tie does in Perl?

Robert Cummings wrote:

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 09:42, Jochem Maas wrote:

Bing Du wrote:

Hi, In Perl, hash can be stored in a file like this: tie(%contact,'SDBM_File',$tmp_file,O_RDWR|O_CREAT,0666); How the function should be implemented in PHP if it's possible?

file_put_contents('/path/to/your/file', $someFingArray)

Shouldn't that be: file_put_contents('/path/to/your/file', serialize($someFingArray));

<brain_fart> well I thought so too (its what I wrote originally) but then I reread the manual and apparently its not necessary - you can shove an array into file_put_contents() I have no idea what that has as a result but then I have not idea what tie() does in Perl ... actually I figured either the OP would notice and go 'er, hows that work?' or not and do it blindly (and then suffer the potential consequences - which would hopefully teach him to RTFM) if some one can write a line like that in Perl, they should be smart enough to make some kind of attempt in PHP no? I found the OPs question annoying but couldn't resist answering something so easy ... then I thought that a short/incomplete answer was probably better than writing a great big monologue (so I deleted it ;-) </brain_fart>

Cheers, Rob