APD1993 Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Hi, I am writing several scripts and some are used to amend extra information to a text file. However, I added a hyperlink to the text file so that the user can go back to a page where they can add extra information. However, since I have done this every time I amend more text to the text file, the extra text appears below the hyperlink rather than above it, and I was wondering if there was a way around this. My amend code is as follows: <html> <head> <title>Amend File</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" a href="rcm/stylesheet.css"> </head> <?php if($_POST['append'] !=null) { $filename="C:/xampp/htdocs/rcm/denman2.txt"; $file=fopen($filename, "a"); $msg="<p>Updated Information: " .$_POST['append']. "</p><br>"; fputs ($file, $msg); fclose($file); } ?> <body> <h1>Do you want to append to a document?</h1> Enter Updated Information: <form action="amendfile2.php" method="post"> <input type="text" size="40" name="append"><br><br> <input type="submit" value="Add updated information to report"> </form> <form action="viewfile3.php" method="post"> <input type="submit" size="40" value="View Web Blog"> </form> <form action="loginform.php" method="post"> <input type="submit" value="Click here to go to the Log In Screen"> </form> </body></html> And my text file is as follows: <h1>Accident Report</h1> <p>First Name: Andrew Last Name: Denman Age: 18 Complete Weeks Since Accident: 2<br> <a href="amendfile2.php">Amend to this file</a> Any help would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 You can't write to the middle of a file without overwriting whatever came after. You'd "have" to read in the whole file, make your change to the string in memory, then write it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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