Re: php, text file, and mysql

On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 04:30 PM, gregory hernandez wrote:

i'm wondering if i can do the following: FIRST, using php, can i create/generate a text file on-the-fly (not saved to a server) THEN, insert the actual text file (and not its contents) into a mysql database.

Sorry, but I don't really understand the question. If you are creating or generating a text file, the word "file" indicates that this is represented by an entity in a filesystem -- thus, it would be saved to a server. Are you asking if you can create/generate text without saving it as a file on the server, but rather just storing the text in memory temporarily? If so, then yes -- -- and the second question I haven't really figured out either. You want to store a text file into a MySQL database but not the contents of that file? It seems like in the first question you want to have contents without a file, and in the second you want a file without contents! :) Unless someone else figures out what you want and helps you, ask again but describe what you want a little bit more. PHP can do a lot of things. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com