Re: Saving an array as a file

> First, let me say your patience is astounding. No biggie - I remember when I was a newbie and people would say "RTFM!" and it would piss me off. I vowed then that if I ever got to the point where I was releasing my own software and participating in the list I would NEVER do that do a newbie - it doesn't foster growth of the community. In order to write a log file you might want to check this page out: http://www.php.net/manual/function.syslog.php Otherwise you definately will want to use a+ to append to a file - if that does not work try 'a+' instead of "a+" and then try it without the + (sometimes the plus gives me problems...) Take care, --Joe ps I cc'd this to the list for all the people out there that say RTFM! > > Okay, I'm really close on this. I can feel it. > > When I fopen() the file with 'w+', the file gets zeroed out when I try to > write to it. All contents are deleted. When I use 'a' or 'a+', there is > no > change to the file at all. I'll provide all the code for you to peruse. > > Here we go: > > //Set log - set form value to Finance Form by cookie userid, if cookie > exists > if (isset($userid_cookie)) { > > //Open file, search for line with corresponding ID, change Form var to > Finance Form, close file > if (!$file=fopen("logfile/log.csv", "w+")) { > echo("Could not open log file."); > } else { > $contents = fread($file,filesize("logfile/log.csv")); > $array_of_lines = explode("\n",$contents); > $line_count = count($array_of_lines); > $incr = 1; > While ($incr <= $line_count) { > if (ereg("^$userid_cookie",$array_of_lines[$incr])) { > //Modify line, replacing noform with Finance Form > $array_of_lines[$incr] = ereg_replace("Finance > Form","noform",$array_of_lines[$incr]); > //Write changed line to file > while (list($key,$val) = each($array_of_lines)){ > $line_to_write = $val . "\n"; > fwrite($file,$line_to_write); > } > //Break out of while loop > break; > } > ++$incr; > } > fclose($file); > } > } > > > -Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Stump [mailto:joe@earth.care2.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:43 AM > To: Jeff Demel > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Saving an array as a file > > > > Sorry to be such a pain, but this is all new stuff to me. > > No worries - I'm here to help! > > <? > > // this will OVERWRITE the file each time > // to APPEND to the file use a+ > $fp = fopen('/path/to/write/file','w+'); > while(list($key,$val) = each($array_of_lines)){ > $line_to_write = $val."\n"; > fwrite($fp,$line_to_write); > } > fclose($fp); > > > ?> > > > --Joe ================================================================================ = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org = ================================================================================ "Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."