[SOLVED] append text in the beggining of a file

[tivrfoa]

hello

 

fopen($handle, "a") works to append text in the end of the file.

 

can someone show how to append in the beggining of the file?

 

thanks very much

[.josh]

unfortunately there is not a built in way to do that.  You have to basically grab the contents of the file and put it into a string or array and concat the new stuff to the string or array_unshift it to the array and rewrite the whole thing back to the file.

[tivrfoa]

unfortunately there is not a built in way to do that.  You have to basically grab the contents of the file and put it into a string or array and concat the new stuff to the string or array_unshift it to the array and rewrite the whole thing back to the file.

thanks!

 

php core could create this =D

 

this is what I did and it's working:

 

$text = 'something';
$filename = 'your_file.txt';
$text .= file_get_contents($filename);
$f = fopen($filename, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($f, $text);
fclose($f);

[.josh]

dunno what format you're wanting to make your file overall, but you might consider adding a newline char on the end of the text you want to pre-pend.