Executing Shell Commands with PHP

Writing to a File

This section highlights several of the functions used to output data to a file.

fwrite()

int fwrite (resource handle, string string [, int length])

The fwrite() function outputs the contents of string to the resource pointed to by handle. If the optional length parameter is provided, fwrite() will stop writing when length characters have been written. Otherwise, writing will stop when the end of the string is found. Consider this example:

<?php
$subscriberInfo = "Jason Gilmore|wj@example.com";
$fh = fopen("/home/www/data/subscribers.txt", "at");
fwrite($fh, $subscriberInfo);
fclose($fh);
?>

Tip If the optional length parameter is not supplied to fwrite(), the magic_quotes_runtime configuration parameter will be disregarded. See Chapters 2 and 9 for more information about this parameter.

fputs()

int fputs (resource handle, string string [, int length])

The fputs() function operates identically to fwrite(). Presumably, it was incorporated into the language to satisfy the terminology preferences of C/C++ programmers.