I want to add four line of code in a PHP file if it found for string 'test' in the file anywhere. I google a lot on this, but didn't get exact solution :(
Please help me on this. Thanks in advance.
You can search your text in file like this:
$data = file_get_contents('file.ext');
if(strpos($data, 'text') !== FALSE)
{
$file_data = "Stuff you want to add\n";
$file_data .= $data;
file_put_contents('file.ext', $file_data);
}
For appending lines at the end of the file use
file_put_contents('file.ext', $text_to_append, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
FILE_APPEND flag is for appending at the end of file and LOCK_EX flag to prevent anyone else writing to the file at the same time
Related
Hellooo,
I wrote myself a little PHP experiment. This script counts how many times the user clicked a button labeled with a specific class (id="link_1", class="heart")
During each click, the script reads a txt file, finds the right id, then adds +1 to that id's number, like so:
#counte_me.php
$file = 'count_me.txt'; // stores the numbers for each id
$fh = fopen($file, 'r+');
$id = $_REQUEST['id']; // posted from page
$lines = '';
while(!feof($fh)){
$line = explode('||', fgets($fh));
$item = trim($line[0]);
$num = trim($line[1]);
if(!empty($item)){
if($item == $id){
$num++; // increment count by 1
echo $num;
}
$lines .= "$item||$num\r\n";
}
}
fclose($fh);
file_put_contents($file, $lines, LOCK_EX);
The result
# count_me.txt
hello_darling||12
This works wonderfully well. The problem happens when, from time to time, I find myself staring at an empty count_me.txt!
Not really know when or how it happens, but it does. I start making increments and happens, sometimes sooner, sometimes way later. It may be on my way to 10 or to 200 or to 320 or anything in between. Its totally random.
Driving me crazy. I'm not experienced enough, but that's why I'm playing with this thing.
Someone knows what I am doing wrong here for the file to get dumped like that?
UPDATE 1
So far, Oluwafemi Sule's suggestion is working, but I have to remove LOCK_EX from the file_put_contents for it to work, otherwise it just doesn't.
// NEW LINE ADDED
if (!empty($lines)) {
file_put_contents($file, $lines);
}
$lines is initially set to an empty string and only updated on the following condition.
if(!empty($item)) {
# and so on and so on
}
And finally at the end,
file_put_contents($file, $lines, LOCK_EX);
The reason that $lines still remains set to the initial empty string happens when item is empty. Remember the newline added from "$item||$num\r\n", there could be more than a single line added there(I won't put it past a text editor to add a new line to end that file .)
I suggest to only write to the file when $lines isn't empty.
if (!empty($lines)) {
file_put_contents($file, $lines, LOCK_EX);
}
I have a csv file that looks something like this (there are many more rows):
Jim,jim#email.com,8882,456
Bob,bob#email.com,8882,343
What I want to do is to change all the values in the fourth column,456,343 to 500.
I'm new to php and am not sure how to do this.
I have tried
<?php
$file = fopen('myfile.csv', 'r+');
$toBoot = array();
while ($data = fgetcsv($file)) {
echo $data[3];
$data[3] = str_replace($data[3],'500');
array_push($toBoot, $data);
}
//print_r($toBoot);
echo $toBoot[0][3];
fputcsv($file, $toBoot);
fclose($file)
?>
But it prints
Jim,jim#email.com,8882,456
Bob,bob#email.com,8882,343
Array,Array
not
Jim,jim#email.com,8882,500
Bob,bob#email.com,8882,500
I've looked at this post, PHP replace data only in one column of csv but it doesn't seem to work.
Any help appreciated. Thanks
You can use preg_replace and replace all values at once and not loop each line of the CSV file.
Two lines of code is all that is needed.
$csv = file_get_contents($path);
file_put_contents($path, preg_replace("/(.*),\d+/", "$1,500", $csv));
Where $path is the path and to the CSV file.
You can see it in action here: https://3v4l.org/Mc3Pm
A quick and dirty way to way to solve your problem would be:
foreach (file("old_file.csv") as $line)
{
$new_line = preg_replace('/^(.*),[\d]+/', "$1,500", $line);
file_put_contents("new_file.csv", $new_line, FILE_APPEND);
}
To change one field of the CSV, just assign to that array element, you don't need to use any kind of replace function.
$data[3] = "500";
fputcsv() is used to write one line to a CSV file, not the entire file at once. You need to call it in a loop. You also need to go back to the beginning of the file and remove the old contents.
fseek($file, 0);
ftruncate($file, 0);
foreach ($toBoot as $row) {
fputcsv($file, $row);
}
I have a huge txt file that have 475254 lines and with php I want to read the first line of the my txt file and save it into the Variable and then when I save it the php delete that line.
my txt file is about 2.3 MB is it possible to do this?
yes it is /.................................
OK less trolling..
You want fopen and fgets will grab a line. REF : fgets Manual PHP
$file = "file.txt"
$f = fopen($file, 'r');
$line = fgets($f);
fclose($f); // You close because you only want the first one.
There are so many examples how to do this i feel embarrassed answering. You should show some of what you have tried first!
Now you want to remove it: use file_get_contents REF : PHP file_get_contents
//Get your file contents
$newDoc = file_get_contents($file, true);
$newFileContents = substr( $line, strpos($newDoc, "\n")+1 );
//then you want to save it
file_put_contents($newFileContents, $file);
I might be wrong but you get the idea!~ ;)
Process :
Get Contents of file
Get First Line
Replace content of all file with your First Line as New Line
Save File
Im sure there is a more efficient way to do this, im just winging!
NOTE: You may need to configure your php.ini to work with larger files!
yes, Mark is probably too lazy to even try bulid a code, but i have already a working code so.. copypasta
$file = "mydata.txt";
$f = fopen($file, 'r');
$line = fgets($f);
fclose($f);
//do smth
$contents = file($file, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
$first_line = array_shift($contents);
file_put_contents($file, implode("\r\n", $contents));
//sleep(1);
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Hi I want to append a row at the beginning of the file using php.
Lets say for example the file is containing the following contnet:
Hello Stack Overflow, you are really helping me a lot.
And now i Want to add a row on top of the repvious one like this:
www.stackoverflow.com
Hello Stack Overflow, you are really helping me a lot.
This is the code that I am having at the moment in a script.
$fp = fopen($file, 'a+') or die("can't open file");
$theOldData = fread($fp, filesize($file));
fclose($fp);
$fp = fopen($file, 'w+') or die("can't open file");
$toBeWriteToFile = $insertNewRow.$theOldData;
fwrite($fp, $toBeWriteToFile);
fclose($fp);
I want some optimal solution for it, as I am using it in a php script. Here are some solutions i found on here:
Need to write at beginning of file with PHP
which says the following to append at the beginning:
<?php
$file_data = "Stuff you want to add\n";
$file_data .= file_get_contents('database.txt');
file_put_contents('database.txt', $file_data);
?>
And other one here:
Using php, how to insert text without overwriting to the beginning of a text file
says the following:
$old_content = file_get_contents($file);
fwrite($file, $new_content."\n".$old_content);
So my final question is, which is the best method to use (I mean optimal) among all the above methods. Is there any better possibly than above?
Looking for your thoughts on this!!!.
function file_prepend ($string, $filename) {
$fileContent = file_get_contents ($filename);
file_put_contents ($filename, $string . "\n" . $fileContent);
}
usage :
file_prepend("couldn't connect to the database", 'database.logs');
My personal preference when writing to a file is to use file_put_contents
From the manual:
This function is identical to calling fopen(), fwrite() and fclose()
successively to write data to a file.
Because the function automatically handles those three functions for me I do not have to remember to close the resource after I'm done with it.
There is no really efficient way to write before the first line in a file. Both solutions mentioned in your questions create a new file from copying everything from the old one then write new data (and there is no much difference between the two methods).
If you are really after efficiency, ie avoiding the whole copy of the existing file, and you need to have the last inserted line being the first in the file, it all depends how you plan on using the file after it is created.
three files
Per you comment, you could create three files header, content and footer and output each of them in sequence ; that would avoid the copy even if header is created after content.
work reverse in one file
This method puts the file in memory (array).
Since you know you create the content before the header, always write lines in reverse order, footer, content, then header:
function write_reverse($lines, $file) { // $lines is an array
for($i=count($lines)-1 ; $i>=0 ; $i--) fwrite($file, $lines[$i]);
}
then you call write_reverse() first with footer, then content and finally header. Each time you want to add something at the beginning of the file, just write at the end...
Then to read the file for output
$lines = array();
while (($line = fgets($file)) !== false) $lines[] = $line;
// then print from last one
for ($i=count($lines)-1 ; $i>=0 ; $i--) echo $lines[$i];
Then there is another consideration: could you avoid using files at all - eg via PHP APC
You mean prepending. I suggest you read the line and replace it with next line without losing data.
<?php
$dataToBeAdded = "www.stackoverflow.com";
$file = "database.txt";
$handle = fopen($file, "r+");
$final_length = filesize($file) + strlen($dataToBeAdded );
$existingData = fread($handle, strlen($dataToBeAdded ));
rewind($handle);
$i = 1;
while (ftell($handle) < $final_length)
{
fwrite($handle, $dataToBeAdded );
$dataToBeAdded = $existingData ;
$existingData = fread($handle, strlen($dataToBeAdded ));
fseek($handle, $i * strlen($dataToBeAdded ));
$i++;
}
?>
I have a txt file in the server and it contains lines sth like that
one
two
three
four
five
i want to make a function that checks if a word exists in these lines.
any help is appreciated.
thank you
Here is how you may proceed with it:
$contents = file_get_contents('yourfile.txt');
$search_keyword = 'four';
// check if word is there
if (strpos($contents, $search_keyword) !== FALSE){
echo "$search_keyword was found !!";
}
else{
echo "$search_keyword was NOT found !!";
}
Does this really need to be done in php? You've just described the UNIX grep utility.
You could do it like:
$data = file($path_to_file,FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
if (in_array($data,'word')) {
// do something
}
That is a simple hack but it should work.