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PHP Tutorial : Write to a file with fwrite

Posted on June 11, 2009 by PhpTips — No Comments ↓

I showed you earlier in a older post how to open and read text contents from a file. Now it’s time to see how to write to a file using php function called fwrite().

<?php

$theFileToWriteTo = "textFile.txt";
$fileHandle = fopen($theFileToWriteTo, 'w') or die("cannot open the text file");
$textToWrite = "First text to write here\n";
fwrite($fileHandle, $textToWrite);
$textToWrite = "Second line to write here\n";
fwrite($fileHandle, $textToWrite);
fclose($fileHandle)

?>

<?php

$theFileToWriteTo = "textFile.txt";

$fileHandle = fopen($theFileToWriteTo, 'w') or die("cannot open the text file");

$textToWrite = "First text to write here\n";

fwrite($fileHandle, $textToWrite);

$textToWrite = "Second line to write here\n";

fwrite($fileHandle, $textToWrite);

fclose($fileHandle)

Note that “\n” means new…

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