Simple flatfile question

Hi all,

NEW NOVICE to php.....

I need a very simple flatfile DB that has 4 fields and about 20 rows like so:

datefrom || dateto || availability || price

basically I need these fields to be 'editable' by the administrator but I want them in a table

Anyone any ideas how I can have this as a flatfile db, editable and saved again?
Thanks

I found something like this......

<?
$Lines = file("data.txt");

foreach($Lines as $Key => $Val) 
{
   //explode that data into a new array:  
   $Data[$Key] = explode("||", $Val);
}

for($K = 0; $K < sizeof($Lines); $K++) 
{ 
   echo '<p>';   
   echo 'Name: '.$Data[$K][0].'<br>';
   echo 'Age: '.$Data[$K][1].'<br>';
   echo 'Hobby: '.$Data[$K][2].'<br>';
   echo '</p>';
}
?>

PHP:

 

1. Use a loop to generate a tabulated form with the help of the ff-db. Let the names of the input elements be associative arrays such

<input type="text" name="customer[1][datefrom]">
<input type="text" name="customer[1][dateto]">
<input type="text" name="customer[1][availability]">
<input type="text" name="customer[1][prince]">

<input type="text" name="customer[2][datefrom]">
<input type="text" name="customer[2][dateto]">
<input type="text" name="customer[2][availability]">
<input type="text" name="customer[2][prince]">

<input type="text" name="customer[3][datefrom]">
<input type="text" name="customer[3][dateto]">
<input type="text" name="customer[3][availability]">
<input type="text" name="customer[3][prince]">

Code (markup):

Note: i have used the table markup above to keep it simple!

2. Now when teh form is submitted loop the $_POST["customer"] associative array, make lines from its new children arrays and write it to the file.