Hi,
I am building a web site and have all the text titles in a file called texts.php and I want to be able to add new texts a the end of file one line before the ?>.

so:
How can I read all the file?
Remove the ?> from the end of the file?
writing new line(s) at the end of the file?
Adding new ?> at the end again

here is the file:

<?php
// main texts December 25, 2005

$lang['sitename']= 'MySite.com';
$lang['siteurl']= 'http://mysite.com';
$lang['click_here']='Click Here';
?>
=========================================
here is what I have done:
This file can read but I can't get the contents outside this code and use somewhere else in a function:
$repl="\n";
$special = "\?>";
$handle = @fopen("$myfile", "r") or die("can not find the file to read");
while (!feof($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);

//echo $buffer ;
$samm =ereg_replace($special,$repl, $buffer);

echo $samm;

}// end of while
fclose($handle);
I can get the contents within the while { .....} only.
Please help.

Well explain what your doing, and why dose this file have to have <? and ?> tags around it? thers prob a easyer way to do what you need to do.

Originally Posted by mrpaul

Well explain what your doing, and why dose this file have to have <? and ?> tags around it? thers prob a easyer way to do what you need to do.

this is an include file as "mytext.php" or "mytext.txt" where it helds all the texts tags for the web site I want to the same as it is done in "phpbb" forum where the text are in anoth file so in the future update I only open the file that has the text.

in that file I havve
$lang['sitename']='Webmaster Talk For All';

and this file (the file that contains texts) is used as include in all of my php files and simply when I want to print that text I do:
echo $lang['sitename'];
and it prints the text.
can you suggest anything else?
I though to use mysql to hold the text but I think it may be slower that way.
Regards

Well you could prob use

PHP Code:

$old = str_replace("?>", " ", $buffer); 


so that replaces ?> with blank text, then all that needs to be done is write $old and some otehr data, say new? to a file - finaly write ?> to the end.

PHP Code:

$filename = "File.txt";           # sets file name.
$handle = fopen($filename, "r"); # opens the file to read it.

$old = fread($handle, filesize ($filename)); # $old is now the text in $filename

fclose($handle); #closes file.  #close file
$new = " The new stuf ";   # the new stuff to be writen is here.
$old2 = str_replace("?>", " ", $old); # $old2 is the same as old without the ?>
$tag = "?>"; 
$final_content = $old2.$new.$tag; #Finaly every is set to be writen


$handle2 = fopen($filename, "w");  #opens it
$finalwrite = fwrite($handle2, $final_content); #writes it
fclose($handle2); #closes it 


Remove all the anoying #things and it should work.