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<?php
if (!function_exists('file_put_contents')) {
    function file_put_contents($filename, $data) {
        $f = @fopen($filename, 'w');
        if (!$f) {
            return false;
        } else {
            $bytes = fwrite($f, $data);
            fclose($f);
            return $bytes;
        }
    }
}
?>

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6 Responses to “file_put_contents() for PHP4”

1. Adam Dempsey Says:
   September 11th, 2007 at 7:08 am

   Shouldn’t the title be file_put_contents?

2. Stoyan Says:
   September 11th, 2007 at 12:57 pm

   oops, thanks Adam!

3. Sam Says:
   December 1st, 2007 at 11:18 am

   Thanks very much - a useful function!

4. olivetalks » Blog Archive » Register_Globals Off and PHP4 Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 10:09 am

   [...] a bit more research and I found out that the function which appears in the script from B&T’s Tips & Scripts: file_put_contents() works with PHP5 but not with PHP4 which is what I have. Some googling for “file_put_contents() for PHP4″ brings up quite a few implementations of the PHP5 file_put_contents() function for PHP4. The one I settled for can be found in Stoyan Stefanov’s blog phppied.com (thanks Stoyan!) [...]

5. Surjit Says:
   February 12th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

   thanks very much, it was very usefull for me

6. Derek Says:
   May 20th, 2008 at 8:24 am

   (”Beginner”) Can you explain this a bit?

   If I have file_put_contents(”$archiveDir/$archiveFilename”, $output); how do I make it work using this?

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