Re: Can I delete / update line inside the file ?

It is not possible to get the database as client is not ready for that (Can't help it - you know). I am thinking - I will take the data in an array first - change it and flush back to file again. Is there any command to flush back the whole array in to file (each array element will become one line) or do I need to write one by one line ? manisha At 04:59 AM 5/23/02 +0300, you wrote:

Get a database working! That's definitely worth investing some time in - apart from the obvious speed avdantages, you'd learn a lot. About your question, AFAIK you can only do it by reading from one file and writing to a temp file, then moving the temp over the original - pretty clumsy, if you ask me... ;-) Bogdan Manisha wrote:

Hi, I have one file with following format No. | Name | Email | status 1 | Manisha | manisha@aurica.com | Pending 2 | Neha | neha@hotmail.com | Reject 3 | Aish | aish@yahoo.com | Pending ....... I want to update status change against that line. e.g For sr no 1 - I want to change the status from Pending to Accepted. I read about the fseek / fwrite command, but did not came across the delete the line from file. I believe fseek command will write a line starting from pointer but will not overwrite. I am using PHP3 and no database is available (That's the main problem). And many times I need to seek the record (line) , change it and store back. I may be asking some silly questions as I am very very new to PHP. Please bear with me. Thanks in advance Manisha