appending information

i dont need to read in files for this example, I was asking how I would go about it if I saw the need to with some other project

I see what you mean about writing to a file instead of a field, but I dont know how to do this, let alone retrieve it.
Can you give example code on how to do these actions?

This explains it better than I can
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

excellent, will give it a go
thanks for you help re: this topic