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this-id-not-nickwills	21 Nov, 2002 - 03:34 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 19 Nov, 2002 Posts: 8	ok. i made a page with a form that writes the text in a textbox to a txt file. but it just adds on to the end of the txt file. is there a way to delete the text and just have the new text that in the box?
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fyrestorm	RE: More Txt Stuff 21 Nov, 2002 - 03:36 PM Post #2
D.I.C Lover Joined: 4 Apr, 2002 Posts: 3,103 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 228 My Contributions	ok, let me see if i get what you mean, you're writing text to a file and it just keeps adding to the file and what you want is for the file to be erased before it's written to?
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this-id-not-nickwills	RE: More Txt Stuff 21 Nov, 2002 - 03:38 PM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 19 Nov, 2002 Posts: 8	bingo man. i made a flash page that pulls its news from the txt file.
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fyrestorm	RE: More Txt Stuff 21 Nov, 2002 - 03:40 PM Post #4
D.I.C Lover Joined: 4 Apr, 2002 Posts: 3,103 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 228 My Contributions	ok, so are you using this php function: CODE $fp = fopen ("file", "r");
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this-id-not-nickwills	RE: More Txt Stuff 21 Nov, 2002 - 03:52 PM Post #5
New D.I.C Head Joined: 19 Nov, 2002 Posts: 8	i was actually using CODE $fp = fopen ("file", "a");
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this-id-not-nickwills	RE: More Txt Stuff 21 Nov, 2002 - 03:59 PM Post #6
New D.I.C Head Joined: 19 Nov, 2002 Posts: 8	fyrestorm, you're a genius. i set it to $fp = fopen ("file", "w+"); and everything worked out super. thanks man.
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fyrestorm	RE: More Txt Stuff 21 Nov, 2002 - 04:04 PM Post #7
D.I.C Lover Joined: 4 Apr, 2002 Posts: 3,103 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 228 My Contributions	no prob man, glad i can help you
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gneato	RE: More Txt Stuff 21 Nov, 2002 - 07:12 PM Post #8
<title>Untitled Document</title> Joined: 3 Sep, 2001 Posts: 1,311	"man" hehe the way we assume...
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fyrestorm	RE: More Txt Stuff 22 Nov, 2002 - 10:12 AM Post #9
D.I.C Lover Joined: 4 Apr, 2002 Posts: 3,103 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 228 My Contributions	QUOTE(gneato @ Nov 21 2002, 09:12 PM) "man" hehe the way we assume... hehe most of the time i'm right in my assumptions....
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nickwills	RE: More Txt Stuff 22 Nov, 2002 - 10:49 AM Post #10
ive told capty to change this 30k times, but he's a fag Joined: 5 Sep, 2002 Posts: 482 My Contributions	QUOTE(fyrestorm @ Nov 22 2002, 12:12 PM) QUOTE(gneato @ Nov 21 2002, 09:12 PM) "man" hehe the way we assume... hehe most of the time i'm right in my assumptions.... and i was super glad you made the assumption. it clicked with me and now everything works out super.
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fyrestorm	RE: More Txt Stuff 23 Nov, 2002 - 07:23 AM Post #11
D.I.C Lover Joined: 4 Apr, 2002 Posts: 3,103 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 228 My Contributions	QUOTE(nickwills @ Nov 22 2002, 12:49 PM) QUOTE(fyrestorm @ Nov 22 2002, 12:12 PM) QUOTE(gneato @ Nov 21 2002, 09:12 PM) "man" hehe the way we assume... hehe most of the time i'm right in my assumptions.... and i was super glad you made the assumption. it clicked with me and now everything works out super. i'm glad that i could help you out, but when talking about assumptions i was referring to the 'gender' assumption
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