thomas49th

Hi my server dosn't support MySQL unless i pay more money. I want to create a forum but in pure php. I want to put the username,password respectively of users in a .php between <?php ?> tags, that way people (crackers/hackers) cant see it. I know how to write to a file but how do i write before the ?> closing tag and after the last entry. Also when i come to read it the user will enter his username and password into a text box then i will have to parse at every new line of the file until finding the username then parse again at the , to check if the passwords are equal. Please could somebody(ies) give me somewhere to start on this. Thx P.S Does anybody know where you can host a FREE SQL database for forum use which i can query,add,delete records from my site via php?