Append existing file

[ecube]

this is abit random but to me it seriously blew my mind to find out php/perl didn't have a setfilepoint equivilant built in. for php a addon like pear might give it the ability, but you'd think itd have it as its core, considering how essential it is.

[dedndave]

i think they have security issues in mind
there are a lot of limitations for coding webpages because of security
very different from writing applications

[ecube]

i think they have security issues in mind
there are a lot of limitations for coding webpages because of security
very different from writing applications

eh idk about that one, only explanation i've gotten is PHP is more about speed, and focuses on offloading most of the workload onto other things(like databases) that way users can be accomdated faster. The lack of setfilepointer still doesn't fit as you can read entire files into memory, do what you like, then write it back out, which is not ideal at all.

[hutch--]

abdul,

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