Question

I have this issue i am writing a array to a file but when i unset() some sub arrays it keeps the comma or when i add anther sub array to the end it add a comma.

eg:

$account_data = include('./*****/AccountData.php');

$account_data[$username]['Name']     = $name;
$account_data[$username]['Password'] = $password;
$account_data[$username]['RandID']   = $randid;
$account_data[$username]['PublicD']  = $publicdownload;
$account_data[$username]['Enabled']  = $enabled;
$account_data[$username]['Admin']    = $admin;

$configdata = "<?php\n\nreturn ".var_export($account_data, true)."; \n\n?>";

$file = fopen('./*****/AccountDataTest.php', 'w');
fwrite($file, $configdata);
fclose($file);

when i run that code to add a sun array i get this

<?php
return array (
    'Ryan' => array (
        'Name' => 'Ryan',
        'Password' => '',
        'RandID' => '',
        'PublicD' => 0,
        'Enabled' => 1,
        'Admin' => 0,
    ),
    'Chris' => array (
        'Name' => 'Christopher',
        'Password' => '',
        'RandID' => '',
        'PublicD' => 1,
        'Enabled' => 1,
        'Admin' => 1,
    ),
);
?>

as you can see it adds a comma and when i run my unset function the code for the AccountData.php file will look the same with out the Chris but it has the following comma at the end of Ryan.

I am not sure how I can fix this I have been googling with not much luck.

Answer 1

I’m not sure if I understand the problem, but you would probably save yourself a lot of headaches by using serialize and unserialize to save your data in a file.