My mistake:
Try unlink() then touch() not fopen().
Hugh
----- Original Message -----
From: "hugh danaher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "php" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] delete file contents before writing?
> Try unlink("$file_name") then fopen("$file_name","rw")
> unlink() deletes the whole file from the directory.
> Hope this helps.
> Hugh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 8:37 AM
> Subject: [PHP] delete file contents before writing?
>
>
> > Not sure how I could do this as I could not find a functions on php.net
to
> > allow me to first delete the entire contents of a file "before" writting
> the
> > changes supplied by a textarea. Here is what I have thus far:
> > Page one - Form:
> > <?php
> > $file_name = 'blank.php';
> > $open_file = fopen("$file_name","rw");
> > if (!$open_file) {
> > die("cannot open $file_name");
> > } else {
> > $read_file = fread($open_file, filesize($file_name));
> > $strip_php = eregi_replace("<","&a&", $read_file);
> > fclose($open_file);
> > }
> > ?>
> > <form name="edit_passwords" method="post" action="edit_passwords.php">
> > <textarea name="passwords" cols="60" rows="7"><?php echo $strip_php;
> > ?></textarea>
> > <br>
> > <input type="submit" name="save" value="save">
> > </form>
> > Page two - open file and write changes:
> > <?php
> > if (!$passwords) {
> > header ("Location: index.php");
> > } else {
> > $file_name= "blank.php";
> > $file_open = fopen($file_name, "r+");
> > eregi_replace("&a&","<", $file_open);
> > #eregi_replace("\","", $file_open);
> > fwrite($file_open, $passwords);
> > print ("$passwords was written to $file_name"); }
> > ?>
> > As of right now it opens the file and writes your changes, however it
> simply
> > goes to the end of the file then begins writting. I would like to
delete
> > the contents of the file, then write the changes.
> > Any help or pointers are appreciated!
> > Jas
> >
> >
> >
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