Reading then Writing Info + Read

[Jxhn]

So what would I do if I wanted to write new data over a file, but keep the old data. You would say append, but that's the end of the file, where as I want the beginning of the file.

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Writing data over a file keeping the old data? That's not writing over it.

Do you mean add data to the start of the file?

$file = fopen("genchat.php", "r+");
$data = "what you want to be added to the start of the file";
fwrite($file, $data);
fclose($file); 

[Jam-ez]

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Writing data over a file keeping the old data? That's not writing over it.

Do you mean add data to the start of the file?

$file = fopen("genchat.php", "r+");
$data = "what you want to be added to the start of the file";
fwrite($file, $data);
fclose($file); 

Would that keep the data already there as well?

[Jxhn]

Would that keep the data already there as well?

I thought it would, but aparantly not.
Try this:

$filename = "genchat.php";
$data = "stufflololol";
$data .= file_get_contents($filename);
$file = fopen($filename, "w");
fwrite($file, $data);
fclose($file); 

Doesn't seem like a very good way to do it, but oh well.

[Protege]

Would be "r+" if you want to write data at the beginning and keep the rest of the data intack.

If you want to end data to the end of the file "a+"

You can read the data with these flags as well.

[Jam-ez]

I thought it would, but aparantly not.
Try this:

$filename = "genchat.php";
$data = "stufflololol";
$data .= file_get_contents($filename);
$file = fopen($filename, "w");
fwrite($file, $data);
fclose($file); 

Doesn't seem like a very good way to do it, but oh well.

Worked a charm, thanks.

[Jxhn]

Would be "r+" if you want to write data at the beginning and keep the rest of the data intack.

If you want to end data to the end of the file "a+"

You can read the data with these flags as well.

That's what I thought, but r+ overwrites it aswell.