Issue in fwrite/fputs.

[Veena]

Hi all,

I am new to php and trying to add/change/delete records from notepad. Would you guys pls help me. thanks in advance
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My Sample data is in events.txt:

001, 20110720, Baby shower
002, 20110605, Health test
123, 20000000, test record
003, 20110701, Doctor visit
004, 20110905, Picknic

I am calling function find_Record with a parm $newid1. Assume that its value is 123

For now I commented out the fwrite line, it is echoing ($buffer1) the 4 records except
"123, 20000000, test record".

However if I remove the comment from fwrite then it is echoing $buffer1 as
001, 20110720, Baby shower
27
0003, 20110701, Doctor visit
28

and now the data in events.txt is:
001, 20110720, Baby shower
001, 20110720, Baby shower
123, 20000000, test record
003, 20110701, Doctor visit
003, 20110701, Doctor visit
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function find_Record($newid1) {

$handle1 = @fopen("C:\events.txt", "r+") or die("Oops, could not open file");

    while (!feof($handle1)) {
                
        $buffer1 = stream_get_line($handle1, 4096, "\n");
                $id1 = substr(htmlentities($buffer1), 0, 3);
        
        [INDENT]if($id1 != $newid1){
            
        echo $buffer1;
        echo nl2br("\n");
        // echo fwrite($handle1, $buffer1); 
            
        }[/INDENT]
    }
    
    fclose($handle1);
    return true;    
} 

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I want to delete the record starts with 123 and rewrite event.txt with remaining 4 records.
I tried with fputs too. I tried using dot operator & "\r\n" for next line in fwrite/fputs. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
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[gvre]

If the size of events.txt is small, you can use the following

function DeleteRecord($searchId, $filename)
{
        $rowsDeleted = 0;
        $rows = @file($filename);
        if (is_array($rows))
        {
                $idx  = 0;
                foreach($rows as $row)
                {
                        list($id) = explode(",", $row);
                        if ($id == $searchId)
                        {
                                unset($rows[$idx]);
                                $rowsDeleted++;
                        }
                        $idx++;
                }

                if ($rowsDeleted)
                        file_put_contents("events.txt", implode("", $rows));
                return $rowsDeleted;
        }
        return false;
}

$filename = "c:/events.txt";
$searchId = 123;
$rowsDeleted = DeleteRecord($searchId, $filename);
if ($rowsDeleted === false)
{
        // handle error here

}
else
{
        // check $rowsDeleted here
}