Re: Some advice on working with files

You can do advisory file locking using flock() in PHP but it only works if just PHP is using it... true C offers more extensive locking functions... I ended up doing a C script because I was using file() to load it into an array, but I was using very large files and loading the entire file and writing at the end was becoming resource intensive. If it's just a small file, I'd recommend file() because it's easy. ----- Original Message ----- From: Billy Harvey <Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net> To: John Biesnecker <amraam@ao.net> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 >