I'm experimenting with fopen for the first time and was wondering if it was possible to search for a particular section within a file before adding or replacing that content with data?
Ideally, I'd like to:
Use fopen to get the file
Search for a comment called <!-- test -->
Replace that comment with new data.
This possible? (for the record - Appending data to the end of the file or adding new data to a specific line number would not work for what I'm working on as the file is constantly changing).
Thanks!
<?php
// make sure radio is set
if( isset($_POST['enableSocialIcons']) )
{
// Open file for read and string modification
$file = "/test";
$fh = fopen($file, 'r+');
$contents = fread($fh, filesize($file));
$new_contents = str_replace("hello world", "hello", $contents);
fclose($fh);
// Open file to write
$fh = fopen($file, 'r+');
fwrite($fh, $new_contents);
fclose($fh);
}
?>
From: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php#81325
EDIT: To see what exactly is getting sent by your form do this at the top of the PHP file you're posting to:
<?php
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_POST);
echo '</pre>';
exit;
?>
If you read the entire file in then use something str_replace to make the change, you should be able to get what you want.
Related
I'm trying to make a download counter in a website for a video game in PHP, but for some reason, instead of incrementing the contents of the downloadcount.txt file by 1, it takes the number, increments it, and appends it to the end of the file. How could I just make it replace the file contents instead of appending it?
Here's the source:
<?php
ob_start();
$newURL = 'versions/v1.0.0aplha/Dungeon1UP.zip';
//header('Location: '.$newURL);
//increment download counter
$file = fopen("downloadcount.txt", "w+") or die("Unable to open file!");
$content = fread($file,filesize("downloadcount.txt"));
echo $content;
$output = (int) $content + 1;
//$output = 'test';
fwrite($file, $output);
fclose($file);
ob_end_flush();
?>
The number in the file is supposed to increase by one every time, but instead, it gives me numbers like this: 101110121011101310111012101110149.2233720368548E+189.2233720368548E+189.2233720368548E+18
As correctly pointed out in one of the comments, for your specific case you can use fseek ( $file, 0 ) right before writing, such as:
fseek ( $file, 0 );
fwrite($file, $output);
Or even simpler you can rewind($file) before writing, this will ensure that the next write happens at byte 0 - ie the start of the file.
The reason why the file gets appended it is because you're opening the file in append and truncate mode, that is "w+". You have to open it in readwrite mode in case you do not want to reset the contents, just "r+" on your fopen, such as:
fopen("downloadcount.txt", "r+")
Just make sure the file exists before writing!
Please see fopen modes here:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
And working code here:
https://bpaste.net/show/iasj
It will be much simpler to use file_get_contents/file_put_contents:
// update with more precise path to file:
$content = file_get_contents(__DIR__ . "/downloadcount.txt");
echo $content;
$output = (int) $content + 1;
// by default `file_put_contents` overwrites file content
file_put_contents(__DIR__ . "/downloadcount.txt", $output);
That appending should just be a typecasting problem, but I would not encourage you to handle counts the file way. In order to count the number of downloads for a file, it's better to make a database update of a row using transactions to handle concurrency properly, as doing it the file way could compromise accuracy.
You can get the content, check if the file has data. If not initialise to 0 and then just replace the content.
$fileContent = file_get_contents("downloadcount.txt");
$content = (!empty($fileContent) ? $fileContent : 0);
$content++;
file_put_contents('downloadcount.txt', $content);
Check $str or directly content inside the file
how can i add email in one by one using read/write in php
Am getting the following output and create one folder called "update" update folder contain user entered one email is stored and user enter another email id already existing email id replaced to new email id why?
I need one by one email id called
apap#gmail.com
asadsd#gmail.com
here are my code please review
<form action="demo.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="textEmail">
<input type="submit" value="send">
</form>
Demo.php file are
<?php
// Open the text file
$f = fopen("update.txt", "w");
// Write text
$text = strtr(" ",' ', $_POST['textEmail']);
fwrite($f,$text);
//fwrite($f,$text);
// Close the text file
fclose($f);
// Open file for reading, and read the line
$f = fopen("update.txt", "r");
// Read text
echo fgets($f);
fclose($f);
?>
Open the file in append mode instead of write mode
replace "w" with "a"
$f = fopen("update.txt", "a");
From: http://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
'w' Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file and truncate the file to zero length. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.
'a' Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the end of the file. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it...
Open your file as append mode so that you not need to open the file twice, for writing in the file, for you one email per line you need to use the \n after each email. For reading use the while loop to read end of the file and use fgets to make sure it reads the whole line at a time.
$myfile = fopen("update.txt", "a+");
$txt = $_POST['textEmail']."\n";
fwrite($myfile, $txt);
while(!feof($myfile)) {
echo fgets($myfile) . "<br/>";
}
fclose($myfile);
Documentation: php_file_create and php_file_open
I am unsure on what you are trying to achieve but I will clarify the difference between file write and file append.
Writing to a file when opened in 'w' mode writes from the current file pointer position which when open in 'w' mode is the very beginning of the file, to change this position in this mode use the fseek() method.
Writing to a file when opened in 'a' mode (append mode) will set the file pointer to the last location in the file and in php specifically will always when fwrite() is called will write to the end of the file.
Append File Example
Contents of update.txt before write:
sometext
sometext2
Code that writes to file
$f = fopen('update.txt', 'w');
//Description of 'a' mode from php manual
//Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the end of the file.
//If the file does not exist, attempt to create it. In this mode,
//fseek() has no effect, writes are always appended.
fwrite($f, "somevalue" . "\n");
fclose($f);
Results In an update.txt with contents:
sometext
sometext2
somevalue
Php doc on functions used in this example:
fopen()
fwrite()
<?php
if ($_POST['textEmail'] != '') {
$text = str_replace(" ", ' ', $_POST['textEmail']);
$pattern = '/([a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+#[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6})/';
preg_match_all($pattern,file_get_contents("update.txt"), $matches);
$emails = $matches[0]; // get Array of all email in file
if (!in_array($text, $emails)) { // echck for existing email
file_put_contents("update.txt", PHP_EOL.$_POST['textEmail'], FILE_APPEND);
}else{
echo 'Email address alerady exist';
}
echo $f = file_get_contents("update.txt");
}
?>
Would you please try this for demo.php ?
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++;
}
?>
ok guys need your help again,
previously you all introduced me lightbox which after some tweaking has been great. except while using my php code there doesn't seem to be a way to add a caption to the image. now a friend of my introduced me to array using a .txt file. now this is all fine and dandy but i can't seem to get the code that we came up with to read the file correctly. currently it is randomly pulling the letter "a" and the letter "p" and assigning that, which i have no clue where it is getting this.
now here is the code that i've come up with to get the contents of the file.
<?php
// process caption file into named array
//open the file
$myFile = "captions.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r') or die("Can't open file");
$theData = explode(fread($fh, filesize($myFile)),"\n");
//close the file
fclose($fh);
//parse line by line until there is no data left.
foreach ($theData as $item => $line) {
$exploded = explode("=", $line);
if (count($exploded) == 2) {
$myFile[$exploded[0]] = $exploded[1];
}
}
?>
and then i'm using the code that auto-populates my image album in turn activating the lighbtox.
<?php
$images = glob('*.{jpg,jpeg,png,gif}', GLOB_BRACE);
foreach ($images as $image) {
if (file_exists("./thumbs/{$image}")){
echo "<img src=\"thumbs/{$image}\" alt=\"{$image}\" />";
}
}
?>
using this code generates no errors but doesn't properly read the captions file.
what i'm wanting to do is have the text file setup with the file name seperated by a = and then the caption.
here is a link to my test page if anyone wants to take a look.
http://outtamymindphoto.myftp.org/images/testalbum/testpage.php
You should start by fixing this line:
$theData = explode(fread($fh, filesize($myFile)),"\n");
According to the PHP Manual , the delimeter is the first parameter.
(array explode ( string $delimiter , string $string [, int $limit ] ))
(Read more about explode - http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php)
The right way:
$theData = explode("\n" , fread($fh, filesize($myFile)));
You'll also should try to output the variables in order to locate the problem.
For instance , use var_dump($var) to check $vars value.
Hope I helped you,
comment if you need further help.