# PHP - File handling/manipulation question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-file-handling-manipulation-question/93538>\
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**Created:** [November 1, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-file-handling-manipulation-question/93538 "2003-11-01T14:15:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![APDesign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@APDesign](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/APDesign)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-file-handling-manipulation-question/93538/1 "2003-11-01T14:15:29Z")

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Alright, I plan on making a news updating program for my website so I can stop using [blogger.com](http://blogger.com) (even though it works really well if you tweak it out with a bunch of PHP.) It seems like it will be easy enough to do this myself, but I would also like to take a stab at doing the autoarchiving and stuff. One thing I was wondering is if I saved every news update as a seperate text file, would that be a lot slower than saving all the news updates into ONE text file (possibly 1 month/text file or something.) So in short - is it faster to save everything to one file than it would be to save stuff to different files. If you have any thoughts, just throw em out, I would appreciate it.

Thanks!