Preserved Topic: append text to text file using php

Hi guys,
if you would look at http://www.radio.deltapath.com/dedicationmail.php , notice the "add a dedication" field. Each time a user submits a dedication, the dedication would be appended to a text file called dedicationmsg.txt . But with what I have right now, it always erases my previous message and replace it with the new submitted message. How do I get it to append?
This is my code below:

<?

  if ($submit){

 $insert="INSERT INTO Request (message) VALUES ('$message')";

$result=mysql_query($insert) or die ('Could not insert data.');

}



if($file=fopen("/home/omis107/dedicationmsg.txt", "w+")){

   fputs($file, "$name to $name1 $message");

   fclose($file);



}





$new_value_to_insert = "$message";

$content = file ($file);



array_unshift($content, $new_value_to_insert );



$fp = fopen($file, "w");

foreach($content as $message){    fwrite($fp, $message); }

fwrite($fp, $message);

fclose($fp);





?>

shattered: I'd guess you need to read the current contents add the new dedication to that and then write the lot back to the flat file (this has come up a lot before so search this forum). I'm not sure why you are also inserting data into a database though

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FAQs: Emperor

Thank you for your help Emperor!
Found out that I need to use "a+" instead of "w+" and that solved the problem!

Yes, I am also confused as to why you are entering data into the DB and adding it to a text file

It's usually an 'either or' kind of situation.

If the data is going into the DB, it can be pulled into the file whenever you need it without having to actually open/write/save it.

Change the line that reads
if($file=fopen("/home/omis107/dedicationmsg.txt", "w+")){

to
if($file=fopen("/home/omis107/dedicationmsg.txt", "a")){

notice the "a" instead of the "w+". You want to append and not write.

Sorry Pugz...you got in a bit late with that otherwise helpful piece of advice

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Found out that I need to use "a+" instead of "w+" and that solved the problem!

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