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"Rob .... HELP (PHP)"

Hey Rob, do you know if and how it's possible to load the content of a .dat file into a PHP Variable???

The thing that Monkey_Man asked for, got me coding, and trying to make a simple ... v.simpl I should say, lol ... chat site.

Just all the msg's are coming up in the wrong order ... so if you (or anyone else here) know how to put the content of a .dat file into a PHP Variable, lets say $Chat_Text, I'd be greatful :o)

Erm, I'm not sure. Check the manual.

Is there a function to count how many lines there are in a .dat file before doing anything with it (adding to it, updateing it, etc.)??

Don't suppose some of you could goto http://www.haignet.co.uk/Chat/ and try it out, to see if the basics work.

You should be able to use the , and tags, but nothing else.

You should also be unable to post blank messages.

Would be greatful if you could see if it does that ok, and that the msg's come up ok for you.

Seem sot work ok for me, but I may have missed something

Thanks guys.

Ah, but $foo = `cat bar` is slower than fopen(), and unreliable if the script was moved to a WinNT system :)

Oh c'mon.. be a perl stylee l33t hacker:

$foo = `bar`;

Throw a stripslashes() in there, it gets rid of those annoying escape characters.

ok, you know how on this forum when you type in whatever, that it comes up ans text and not used as HTML.... how do you do that??

I tried that htmlentities(); thing but the speach-marks came up as "\" \and \""

what have I done wrong?

WOW, it works :o)

Cheers for the help :o)

So, do you think this sort of thing would do the trick:

$Chat_File = "Chat_Text.dat";

$Text = trim($Text);

if (! empty($Text)) {
$fp = fopen($Chat_File, 'w');
$datfile = fread($fp, filesize($Chat_File));
fclose($fp);

$fp = fopen($Chat_File, 'w');
$Time = date("g:ia");
fputs($fp, "\n$Username: $Text ($Time)
");
fputs($fp, $datfile);
fclose($fp);
}


or have I got that wrong??

That's exactly what I was going to suggest. There's no other way.