Re: re: Overwriting specific lines in text files without rewriting the whole thing.

Thanks. That's a really good idea. John Biesnecker amraam@ao.net On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Bill Rausch wrote: > > Since your ISP doesn't have MySQL or similar available for you, you might > try writing a small C program that uses open(), lseek(), read(), and > write() to do your "in-place" updating, and then call it from your php > using exec() or system(). The C program itself would be a small one. If > you need to support multiple simultaneous users then you could add "record > locking" or "file locking" so the processes don't interfere with each > other. > > open file > find record > get lock > read record > change record > write record > release lock <-- optional since close() does it for you > close file > > Bill > --- > Bill Rausch, Software Development, Unix, Mac, Windows > Numerical Applications, Inc. 509-943-0861 bill@numerical.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >