Re: Some advice on working with files

Addressed to: Billy Harvey <Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net> <php-general@lists.php.net> ** Reply to note from Billy Harvey <Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net> Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:32:57 -0400 (EDT) > > 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? > It might be an even better reason to load up a database like MySQL, and forget about all the low level file stuff. Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists www.developersdesk.com