Question

Ok sorry if its a stupid question im a begginer.

Im making a small shoutbox just for practise.

It inserts the shout infos in a txt file.

My problem is that, it lists the text from top to bottom, and i would like to do this reversed.

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $text = $_POST['text'];
        if(!empty($text)) {
        $text = $_POST['text'];
        $name = $_POST['name'];
        $time = date("H:i");            
        $content = 
        "<div class='text'><em>" . $time . "</em> 
        <span class='c11'><b>" . "<a href='userinfo_php_willbe_here.php' target='_blank'>" . htmlspecialchars($name) . "</a>" . ":</span></b> 
        " .  htmlspecialchars($text) . " 
        </div>\n";
        file_put_contents($file, $content, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
    }
}

here is my code.

i was googleing around with not much luck maybe i wasnt looking hard enough.

could please someone give me a hint?

thank you

Answer 1

No way to do so with one function call. You need to read the content from your target file, prepend the data in php and rewrite the whole file (see file_get_contents).

$fileContent = file_get_contents($file);
$fileContent = $content . $fileContent;
file_put_contents($file, $fileContent, LOCK_EX);