Question

I’m creating a xml file with PHP here is some sample code.

 $myFile = "example_file.xml";
    $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w');
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {

  $stringData = "<field name=\"id\">$page_id</field>
                              <field name=\"url\">http://myfundi.co.za/a/$page_url</field>
                              <field name=\"title\">$pagetitle</field>
                              <field name=\"content\">$bodytext</field>
                              <field name=\"site\">Myfundi</field>";
                          fwrite($fh, $stringData);
    }             

    fclose($fh);

What I need to do is when the first content is written to the text file, I need to prepend and append some more text.

I need to prepend and append to the data that already exists.

How can I do that?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can’t “prepend” text to a file directly. The only practical method is to open a new temporary file, write out the new text, and then copy the original text onto the end.