[jamesd116]

In the you tube settigs in the admin cp under settings this curremtly is set up as a you tube address what I would want to do is use this area for admin to ad an option to a text file which will be in a drop down file is this possible and if so how?


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One day the court system will learn that a childs mother is not the only option...... Question is will it be too late by that time...

[smith.kyle]

Just to clarify, you have a text file that already exists and you want to add something to it on save?


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kyle[at]jamroom.net

Yes...that's a soda machine...

I get bored when no one's posting...

[jamesd116]

That would be correct if possile, although I have been trying a db version of it which I may be able to finish figuring out tomorrow. So yes if its possible how do you do this.
Which way is better a text file ) I take it this is what we call a flat file)
or a db and some how pull the dropdown list


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One day the court system will learn that a childs mother is not the only option...... Question is will it be too late by that time...

[smith.kyle]

Either way works. I would just use arrayFile to grab the contents of the file, and writeToFile to overwrite the file with the content you want when you're done (or you could append it using that parameter).

Kyle


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kyle[at]jamroom.net

Yes...that's a soda machine...

I get bored when no one's posting...

[jamesd116]

lol you lost me I saw the arrays in the functibn list but it confused me majorly.... lets try the db i know how to create the db so in the form controller how do i pull the info from the db and create a dropdown menu


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One day the court system will learn that a childs mother is not the only option...... Question is will it be too late by that time...

[smith.kyle]

You'll need to query the table you want and use the resulting array for the options.

Kyle


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kyle[at]jamroom.net

Yes...that's a soda machine...

I get bored when no one's posting...

[Brian]

If possible, it is almost always better to use the database unless you need the absolute max performance out of your code. Make sure too that if you DO write to any files, that you use Jamroom's writeToFile() function (instead of rolling your own solution with fopen/fwrite/close), since writeToFile() handles concurrency and file locking so you won't run into a race condition.

Hope this helps!

- Brian


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