Flat Text Database Scripts

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It means text files without formatting or special coding to store information.

In example, if you want to log the IP your visitors come from, you can do it using this code:

Code:

<?php

$v_ip = $REMOTE_ADDR;
$v_date = date("l d F H:i:s");

$fp = fopen("visitors.txt", "a");
fputs($fp, "IP: $v_ip - DATE: $v_date\n\n");
fclose($fp);
?>

In this example the flat text database is "visitors.txt," a simple empty file created with Notepad, uploaded to the server and chmode 666 or 777 on it to make it writable so the server can store the information writing down the IPs as plain text.