write date in file - major help needed

[trauch]

Can anyone help me with a script to write the date. Im using php4 and am stuck.

 

I have a script that adds a series of numbers and outputs it to a new file.

 

What I want is the output to be saved (appended) to an existing file (total.txt) and instead of simply providing the number, to also include a date stamp. So each day the output would be something like - 2008-12-22;238794

 

Over a series of days, the resulting total.txt would look like:

 

2008-12-22;238794

2008-12-23;525355

2008-12-24;636633

2008-12-25;455747

 

[trq]

date

[chronister]

Take a look at fopen and fwrite. You can use fopen to open the file, not truncate it and place the pointer at the end of the file thereby appending to the file.

 

Nate

[cwarn23]

I have made a script which should do the trick and is as follows:

<?
if (file_exists('dates.txt'))
    {
    $file=file_get_contents('dates.txt');
    }
file_put_contents('dates.txt',$file."\n".date('Y-m-d;').preg_replace('/.* (.*)/is','$1',microtime()));
?>