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PHP Tutorial : Write to a file with fwrite

Jun 11, 2009 Basic PHP

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)
?>

Note that “\n” means new line!

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