Re: Using PHP to remove certain number of bytes from file

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 17:20 +0000, Scott Wilcox wrote: > Is it possible with PHP to remove a certain number of bytes from a file, > purely within PHP? Yes. Why wouldn't it? > If so, does someone have an example of doing this, removing the first > 230 bytes from a file. No, that's an awfully specific problem. But here's the tools you'll need: fopen(), fread(), fwrite(), fclose(). Further info... you could do this without creating a separate temporary file (meaning shift bytes within a single file), but I suggest using a temporary target file for writing the new content, and then replacing the original once everything has completed successfully. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................