File Handling in PHP
PHP programs can read and manipulate files that reside on webservers. With PHP, you can read a text file, create a new text file, and edit the text in a file on the server. Once a file is created on a webserver, it can be accessed by any web browser. When a webserver file is edited, those edits will be seen by anyone looking at the file.
Creating and Adding Contents to a Text File with PHP
To use PHP to create a new text file, or to change the contents of an existing text file, you must:
Open the file and signify that you want to write contents to the file
Write text to the file
Close the file
To open a file for writing, use PHP's fopen() function. This function takes two parameters: the name of the file you want to open and either ...
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