fopen alternative

Question

I\'ve got an simple php script, wich creates a file, add some content and closes it again. But my host disabled the fopen function. I was wondering how I could get around th

Answer 1

//to write    
file_put_contents('path_and_filename','content');
//to read:
file_get_contents('path_and_filename');

If you want to append to the file:

file_put_contents('path_and_filename' , 'content' , FILE_APPEND );

You can also lock the file:

file_put_contents('path_and_filename' , 'content' , LOCK_EX );

Take a look at the links below:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php