Waraxe IT Security Portal

clydefrog · Beginner

i want to make a simple admin control panel for my webiste (link at the end of this post). basically teh site just links AIM chatrooms.

can php go into a .txt (i set) and grab the chatrooms based on php variables and relay it to the index page?

aim chat rooms

johnburn · Advanced user

Yes you can by using any of this function:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php

Depending on situation, file_get_contents() can be faster because it's a single call to read the file. But it can also be slower - because it reads the entire file into memory at one time (consider the situation where the file is big) whereas fread() only gets small amounts of data at a time.

clydefrog · Beginner

ah sweet thanks. the file size of the file i'll be getting won't be big, so that won't be a problem. i'll read up on this and see if i can comprehend it. if i can't well then i hope it won't bother you to answer another simple question or two.

but thanks! i appreciate it. Smile