Hi everyone,

I am creating a script where users can subscribe to multiplt mailing lists, I am storing the emails in seperate text files, say one for each newsletter.

I am also running a contest where one of the people who sign up will win one of three prizes which they select when they sign up, Therefor I somehow need to gather all the emails and pick a random one to be fair. The contest will run for say four weeks then a new one will start. But I will have the option for people to reenter the contest every month so as to prevent people joining mailing lists twice.

Obviously the above creates problems for me, I dont have access to SQl or anything so I cant use a database, only flat files to store the emails.

Is there an easy way to do this, the current way I am having to do this is to get the script to ...
- write to a txt file for that newsletter
- write to a txt file for that contest. Obviously there are three seperate ones.
- write to a main txt file so i can prevent them from resigningup -

Is there an easier way to do this ? This will use huge ammounts of space... Thanks for any help, John

In reply to Flat Files by Anonymous Monk

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