Question

I have a .txt file with following content.

[{"key": "HR", "value": "[e-mail]"}, {"key": "Team Leader", "value": "[e-mail]"}, {"key": "PM", "value": "[e-mail]"}, {"key": "CEO", "value": "[e-mail]"}]

Now ,using php if i want to add another one value like
{“key”: “new_emailid”, “value”:”[e-mail]”}

The output should be lik this

[{"key": "HR", "value": "[e-mail]"}, {"key": "Team Leader", "value": "[e-mail]"}, {"key": "PM", "value": "[e-mail]"}, {"key": "CEO", "value": "[e-mail]"}, {"key": "new_emailid", "value":"[e-mail]"}]

In other words, how to add content inside the square bracket of the exisiting .txt file. Is it possible to insert a content in between the brackets. Please help me
Thanks –
Haan

Answer 1

Since you are dealing with JSON the safest way would be to read the txt file and load it as JSON, add a new item, and save it back. Something like this:

$data = File_Get_Contents ( 'data.txt' );
$data = JSon_Decode ( $data, true );
$data[] = Array ( 'key' => 'new_emailid', 'value' => '[e-mail]' );
$data = JSon_Encode ( $data );
File_Put_Contents ( 'data.txt', $data );