Using PHP to EDIT a file?

[djtizzlemaster]

I'm getting pretty familiar with PHP fopen, fwrite, and fclose functions, which you can use to create, open, write to, and append to files. But I still havent figured out how to - or if you can - EDIT a file.

Let's say we've got this:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3

Now, what I want to do is change "Line 1" to "Line A."

Is there a simple way to do that, which doesn't require me to include everything that comes after Line A (such as "Line A\nLine 2\nLine 3")?

 

[vacunita]

You need to get the entire file into probably an array, edit the line that contains what you wan to edit and then write it all back.

Perhaps the file() function can help you do it. Click on the function name for the PHP manual entry for it.



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