Jack, thanks for the response: I can use a database if really really needed. The main reason for wanting to use a flat file is for ease of update from the client's side. They are not technical in the least, and this will save me from having to update a database everytime.
Although i guess i could write a front end to let them add stuff to the database... but i'm lazy like that ;). To do the 3 things you suggested, can you give me a code snippet to do that? //Nick -----Original Message----- From: Jack Dempsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nick Richardson Subject: RE: [PHP] Matching strings in a flat/text file? lots of ideas nick, but can you use a database? MySQL is free and i've found its almost always better to use databases when you can... if you can't, you could do something like this: 1. find the pos of the string you need using strpos 2. find the pos of the ending delimiter 3. substr from the first pos to the end (you'll need to add/subtract some strlen's to slice off the delimiters as well... jack -----Original Message----- From: Nick Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Matching strings in a flat/text file? Hey everyone, Anyone out there know how i could do this: I have a client who is an import car tuner. They would like to feature the cars they work on in their website. Instead of creating a new .html or .php file for every car they add to include the background setup, and the general content (type of car, owner, etc...) i want to put the information in to text file and search for it in there. So that's where i need help. I want to be able to put the info into a text file and pass the string to search for through the URL, then match everything between that line and an ending line in the text file, and print that out to the browser. Example: I want to pass a string using the URL (blah.php?car=civic_si) then search for ##civic_si in the text file, and print everything until it finds ##end. So the text file will look like this: ##civic_si This is my content, blah blah ##end ##nissan This is more content... yadda yadda ##end Any ideas on how i can do this??? //Nick Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
