Good point and nice find, Jeff! I wasn't sure where he was going with the data.. was he trying to save the actual array, intact, for say a chaching exercise or did he want to insert the contents of that array into a file? Could go either way I suppose :) Aaron P.S. Working on a Sunday too? > -----Original Message----- > From: jeffrey_n_Dyke@Keane.com [mailto:jeffrey_n_Dyke@Keane.com] > Sent: August 17, 2003 11:48 AM > To: Aaron Wolski > Cc: 'PHP-DB'; 'OpenSource' > Subject: RE: array issue > > > This may or may not make sense for your issue. but if you have the whole > array in memory you can serialize() it and write the string that the > function returns to the file. > > $fp = fopen("yourfilename.txt", "w"); > $my_array_s = serialize($my_array); > if (isset($fp)) { > fwrite($fp, $my_array_s); > } > > //to get it back into the same array as it was written, use > $fp_cache = fopen("yourfilename.txt", "r") or die("can't open file"); > $fp_readc = fread($fp_cache, filesize("yourfilename.txt"); > $my_array_new = unserialize($fp_readc); > > the data is exactly as it was returned from the db after you looped > through > the record set. > > another idea. --http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php > hth > jeff > > > > "Aaron Wolski" > <aaronjw@martekbi To: "'OpenSource'" > <redhat@opensource.bz>, "'PHP-DB'" <php-db@lists.php.net> > z.com> cc: > Subject: RE: > array issue > 08/17/2003 11:33 > AM > > > > > > > First, are you sure there is data in $my_array? > > Add this after you set the array: > > echo "<pre>"".print_r($my_array)."</pre>"; > > You'll need to loop through the array , writing each line in the file at > a time. > > Something like: > > //open the file stuff here > foreach ($my_array AS $values) > { > > fputs($fp, $value); > > } > //close the file stuff here > > HTH > > Aaron > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: OpenSource [mailto:redhat@opensource.bz] > > Sent: August 17, 2003 11:31 AM > > To: PHP-DB > > Subject: array issue > > Importance: High > > > > hi ya'll > > > > I am having a nightmare on this issue of mine. > > I've got this array that I need to write to a file... > > :::::::: sample code below :::::::: > > > > while (something); > > { > > query data base > > > > $r_ul=ifx_fetch_row($sideQuery4); > > > > $type1 = array($rotation."\n"); > > > > switch ($r_ul['number']) > > { > > case '4'; > > $linea = $type1; > > break; > > } > > > > $final = $linea[0]; > > > > $my_array = array(); > > array_push ($my_array, $final); > > > > } > > > > $file = 'db_dump.dat'; > > $fp = fopen($file, "w"); > > fputs($fp, $my_array); <--- I would like to write the complete array > into > > the file > > fclose($fp); > > > > kindly assist with this issue.. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > -- > 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
