https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1016317 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/searching-flat-files-php#comment-1094556 <p>It's just a small project that I am doing for myself, its just messing around really. I use MySQL most of the time but I haven't really used text files all that much so.. its just an opportunity</p> Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:04:13 +0000 a_gajic comment 1094556 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/searching-flat-files-php#comment-1094537 <p>Why are you still using flat files? You should consider moving over to mySQL or other database program.</p> <p>I don't have time to write out a whole script for you, but here are some functions you'll need:<br /> reading the file: <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php" class="bb-url">file()</a>, <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php" class="bb-url">fopen()</a>, <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php" class="bb-url">fread()</a>, <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fclose.php" class="bb-url">fclose()</a><br /> parsing lines: <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strstr.php" class="bb-url">strstr()</a>, <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php" class="bb-url">preg_match()</a>, <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg.php" class="bb-url">ereg()</a></p> <p>Search functions can be rather complex depending on the requiremens. I'd suggest searching <a href="http://hotscripts.com" class="bb-url">http://hotscripts.com</a> and <a href="http://resourceindex.com" class="bb-url">http://resourceindex.com</a> to see if they have anything that will work for you.</p> Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:02:13 +0000 Mark Hensler comment 1094537 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net