flat file help please thank you.

[redarrow]

for some strange reason i can not copy and past on here no more, so all i need is to no how to use exist in a flat file thank you.


and this ($contents==3){
}

dosent work on flat file please help thank you.

[Guest footballkid4]

I have one thing to say...WHAT!?!?!?!

Your question makes absolutely NO sense. Can you please state what exactly you want.

[Prismatic]

lol, what?

[litebearer]

Not sure why its not displaying code for me, but one more try...

--- note this proceedure IS case sensitive
[code]<?PHP

$file_name = "some_data.dat";// set data file name


$needle = "John";// set search variable


$fp = f open($file_name, 'r'); // open the data file
// remove the space between f and open - for some reason the board will NOT let me post the code properly


$haystack = f read($fp, filesize($file_name));// read the entire contents of the file into a string
// remove the space between f and read - for some reason the board will NOT let me post the code properly

$ntimes = substr_count($haystack, $needle);// count times $needle is in $haystack

if ($ntimes > 3) {
  // do something
}
?>[/code]


Lite...