Re: Some advice on working with files

John Biesnecker writes: > I dealt with the problem myself just recently (yesterday, in fact). The > best solution I found was to write C scripts and execute them from PHP > (because C offers much more robust filehandling stuff) but, barring that, > I'd read it all into an array and manipulate the individual lines... > otherwise modifying text files is a real pain. How would you handle file locking in PHP, or would this alone be a good enough reason to call an external program? Billy