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[bluewalrus]

In the fopen($File, 'a'); function is there a way to have it write at the start of the file rather then the end; so newest things being added would appear first?
This is my current code to clarify a bit what I'm doing maybe. Maybe this won't help at all.

$File = "questions.txt";
$Handle = fopen($File, 'a');
$Data = "<p>From:" . $visitor .  "<br />Submitted on:" . $todayis . "<br />" . $notes . "</p><hr />";
fwrite($Handle, $Data);
fclose($Handle); 

[techietim]

Instead of a, try using r+.

[bluewalrus]

That overwrites whatever is at the start

[gpigate]

possibly try traversing an array of the file, adding elements prior to the start, then rewriting it?

[bluewalrus]

Don't really get what you mean?

[gpigate]

i havent actually tried it so I can not give you a code example. but you should be able to load your file into an array, then sort the array in reverse order. add your line to the array which making it higher in element. then write the array back to the file.

you would probably need to crush the file when writing it back. ie deleting the content and rewriting it.

[bluewalrus]

hmmm I've never used arrays in php and haven't used an arrays in general in a while. You know of any tutorials?

[gpigate]

try googling it. you will have to sort through a bunch of invalid examples etc.

$fp = @fopen($filename, 'r');
if ($fp) {
$array = explode("\n", fread($fp, filesize($filename)));
}

that will load a file into an array.

while (list($key,$value) = each($array)) {
echo "$key : $value<br>";

this should show you if you have values in the array after reading the file

once you have that working... you could then use rsort function or something else to sort the array in reverse order. stick whatever you want in the array as the highest element and then write it back to the file.

the above code is not mine, something i found on google pretty quickly. i dont know if it works but at a glance seems syntactically ok

pretty good article.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-5077722.html

[bluewalrus]

Ahh I've figured it out thanks.

For anyone else that is searching....

$File = "textfilename.txt";
$Handle = fopen($File, "r+");
$Data = "WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE INSERTED";
if ($Data <> "")
{    
    $existingText = file_get_contents($File);
    fwrite($Handle, $Data . $existingText . "\n");
}
fclose($Handle); 

[gpigate]

but reverse traversing an array and launching a lunar lander would have been much more fun and rewarding

glad you figured it out.