When I first started learning PHP I didn’t want to overload myself with learning about SQL as well, so I used text files for storage instead (also known as flat-file databases).
I am going to show you how to write information to a text file using PHP. You don’t have to have any PHP knowledge at all in order to follow this tutorial.
Platform(s): Windows
Date: Jan, 04 2006
Author: Charles Sexton, http://www.akatolken.com/2005/12/29/simple-text-storage-with-php/