Posted by "A.J. Brown" on 09/27/05 17:35

Are you wanting the preferences to be real-time changeable? For example,
user preferences that can be modified then saved? If so, just store them in
an array, then serialize the array and save it to a file. Read the file at
every page load.

[code]

//save the settings
$user_settings['setting1'] = 'foo';
$user_settings['setting2'] = 'bar';

$fh = fopen('user_settings.dat');
$serialized = serialize($user_settings);
fwrite ($fh, $serialized, strlen($serialized));
fclose($fh);

//reload the settings
$user_settings = unserialize(file_get_contents('user_settings.dat'));


[/code]


Hope this helps.

--

Sincerely,

A.J. Brown



"Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@THERMON.com> wrote in message
news:0CEC8258A6E4D611BE5400306E1CC92708D47293@smtmb.tmc.local...
> [snip]
> I'd like to save some program preferences to a txt file where they can be
> recalled and updated at a later time. Basically this will be a variable
> name
>
> and a value. Can someone suggest a reference or method to best perform
> this
> task?
> [/snip]
>
> Open a new file, save stuff to it, close the file.
> Include the file where you need the prefs.
>
> http://www.php.net/fopen
> http://www.php.net/explode

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