[PHP]Posting Help.

I'm Learnin php, been readin tuts and whatnot.
I wrote a script that uses a html form and when you type in the news you want to submit then click submit it runs newnews.php which remembers what you typed using $_POST then writes it to my news.php fwrite($fh, $stringData); but i want to use 'r+' instead of 'a' to write the news. But when I use 'r+' it tends to overwrite the news I've already posted. Is there any way around it overwriting my current news I've already posted?
Heres the newnews.php

PHP Code:

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<?php
$newPost = $_POST['newPost'];

$myNews = "news.php";
$fh = fopen($myNews, 'a'); /*This is where I want it to be r+*/

$stringData = "<center>";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = '<img src="images\spacer.jpg">';
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "<br />";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = date("m/d/y");
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "-Admin<br />";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = $newPost;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "<br />";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = '<img src="images\spacer.jpg">';
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "</center>";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

echo "Succesfully Submited.<br />";
echo '<a href="news.php">Check what you posted</a>';
?>

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Ok, first make this code readable, you call functions so many times, so useless, this would be better:

PHP Code:

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<?php
$fh = fopen("news.php", 'a'); /*This is where I want it to be r+*/

$data = "<center><img src=\"images\spacer.jpg\"><br />".date("m/d/y")."-Admin<br />".$_POST['newPost']."<br /><img src=\"images\spacer.jpg\"></center>";
fwrite($fh, $data);
fclose($fh);

echo "Succesfully Submited.<br />";
echo '<a href="news.php">Check what you posted</a>';
?>

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Ok: you want (I guess) add the new news on top/bottom of the old, already written news?

You could use file_get_content() to get the current content and add that above/beneath the new news and than write it to news.php (overwriting).

But I dont get it:

Quote:

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But when I use 'r+' it tends to overwrite the news I've already posted. Is there any way around it overwriting my current news I've already posted?

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What do you want? It being overwritten or not?

dude i love you right now, i sat and tried figurin out how to get all them fwrites into one line yesterday, and what i', tryin to do is get it to post the new news above the old news without overwriting it. such as

Before:
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12/7/07-Admin
Hi
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After:
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13/7/07-Admin
Zzzzz
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12/7/07-Admin
Hi
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PHP Code:

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<?php
$fh = fopen("news.php", 'a'); /*This is where I want it to be r+*/

$data = "<center><img src=\"images\spacer.jpg\"><br />".date("m/d/y")."-Admin<br />".$_POST['newPost']."<br /><img src=\"images\spacer.jpg\"></center>".file_get_content('news.php');
fwrite($fh, $data);
fclose($fh);

echo "Succesfully Submited.<br />";
echo '<a href="news.php">Check what you posted</a>';
?>

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That'll work I think ;), good luck :)

Ahhhhh thanks much man, Changed the a to r+ and did EXACTLY what i needed it to.