[tavilach]

I just had a really cool idea for a PHP application, but I don't know how to do two things:

1) Compare two files for equality.

2) Saving a web page as a file (like what you do in IE, when you click "Save As...-->Web Archive"--it saves the current state of the page as a .mht file) using PHP. In other words, giving PHP a web address, and letting it save the state of that address.

Any help will be most appreciated!

[tavilach]

Actually, using PHP to save the source code, instead of saving the .mht file, should also work...but, again, I don't know how to do that.

[Larry]

About comparing 2 files, you can open each file, read character for character and compare them.

here is some code I have to read a file, I'm sure you can tweak it to fit your needs

function FileCompare() {

$file_data1 = fopen ("/path_to_file/file1.txt", "r");
$file_data2 = fopen ("/path_to_file/file2.txt", "r");

while (!feof ($file_data)) {
$record = fgets($file_data);
$ra = split( ',', $record);
//open other file and read/compare the characters

}
fclose($file_data);
}

[SDesigns]

Reading character for character looking for differences will put some load on the server... and it will end up being VERY slow if your file is of reasonable size...

[casino]

yes and no...

I have imported a flat file into a database over the web very quickly. The file size was about 4.5 meg and takes less than a minute or 2.

This is reading line by line, though.. nonetheless, importing 25,000 records into a db from a flat file is pretty quick.
This is even doing a little logic/editing the data before it is inserted.

I was amazed at how fast it was.
Not sure how much time it would add, reading character by character.