Re: Re: Problem: Writing into Files?

From: Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:16:25 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Problem: Writing into Files?
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Dear Richard, I don't quite know how I can write a bite into a file. I also looked into a manual and couldn't find a mention of FLock-ing in the explaination for FOpen parameters. Thanks a lot for your help. -- --- Contact info: Skype: parham-d MSN: fire_lizard16 at hotmail dot com email: parham90 at GMail dot com "Richard Heyes" <richard@php.net> wrote in message news:af8726440908020221r22e1efb3g321ba4140bfa42d6@mail.gmail.com... > Hi, > >> ... > > You can write a single byte to the file to "increment" the counter, > then to read the count just use filesize(). I believe the a fopen() > mode will handle locking for you. It will result in a slowly growing > file, but space isn't exactly at a premium nowadays, and when the file > gets to a certain size (eg 1 gazillion k) you could use a summary > file. > > -- > Richard Heyes > HTML5 graphing: RGraph - www.rgraph.net (updated 25th July) > Lots of PHP and Javascript code - http://www.phpguru.org

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