if you want to overwrite the file each time, then just use the "w" flag, which will open, and clear the contents of the file preparing it for writing, instead of "r". check out the file commands on php.net.-- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php -- quite a bit of flexibility is offered for stuff of this sort. second, i'd use preg_match[_all] for searching through the file. you can read it in with fread after it has been opened or use file(), then traverse the array it returns searching for your content. as with anything, i'm sure there are other ways. hth jeff "Miguel Brás" <molino26@netc To: php-db@lists.php.net abo.pt> cc: Subject: Copy and read a file 04/18/2003 08:04 AM Hi gents, I wanna copy a file from a webserver to my webserver everytime someone runs the script A. Someone gave me the following lines for it: ****************** $fp = fopen ("http://www.ivan.ivao.org/whazzup.txt";, "r"); while (!feof ($fp)) { $buffer = fgets($fp, 10000); $fo = fopen ("data_status.txt","a+"); fputs($fo,$buffer); } fclose ($fp); fclose ($fo); ****************** For sure that this works, but it appends the new file, and i want to delete all the old data and write the new one on the begin of the file. Any idea for it? The other part is that i wanna start on a specific point of the file and make a search for a word. If i find the word, it continues to look until eof. Then it returns me all the data found. Any help here also? Miguel -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
