file_put_contents

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

file_put_contents — Escribir datos en un fichero

Descripción

file_put_contents(
    string $filename,
    mixed $data,
    int $flags = 0,
    resource $context = ?
): int

Esta función es idéntica que llamar a fopen(), fwrite() y fclose() sucesivamente para escribir información en un fichero.

Si filename no existe, se crea el fichero. De otro modo, el fichero existente se sobrescribe, a menos que la bandera FILE_APPEND esté establecida.

Parámetros

filename

Ruta del fichero donde se escribe la información

data

La información a escribir. Puede ser tanto un recurso string, como array o stream.

Si data es un recurso stream, el buffer restante de ese flujo será copiado al fichero especificado. Esto es similar a usar stream_copy_to_stream().

También se puede especificar el parámetro data como un array de una sóla dimensión. Esto es equivalente a file_put_contents($nombre_fichero, implode('', $array)).

flags

El valor de flags puede ser cualquier combinación de las siguientes banderas, unidas con el operador binario OR (|).

**Banderas disponibles**
Bandera	Descripción
`FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH`	Buscar `filename` en el directorio incluido. Véase include_path para más información.
`FILE_APPEND`	Si el fichero `filename` ya existe, añade la información al fichero en vez de sobrescribirlo.
`LOCK_EX`	Adquirir acceso exclusivo al fichero mientras se está ejecutando la escritura. En otras palabras, ocurre una llamada a flock() entre la llamada a fopen() y la llamada a fwrite(). Esto no es indéntico a una llamada a fopen() con el modo "x".

context

Un recurso de contexto válido creado con stream_context_create().

Valores devueltos

Esta función devuelve el número de bytes que fueron escritos en el fichero, o false en caso de error.

Advertencia

Esta función puede devolver el valor booleano false, pero también puede devolver un valor no booleano que se evalúa como false. Por favor lea la sección sobre Booleanos para más información. Use el operador === para comprobar el valor devuelto por esta función.

Ejemplos

Ejemplo #1 Ejemplo sencillo de uso

<?php
$fichero = 'gente.txt';
// Abre el fichero para obtener el contenido existente
$actual = file_get_contents($fichero);
// Añade una nueva persona al fichero
$actual .= "John Smith\n";
// Escribe el contenido al fichero
file_put_contents($fichero, $actual);
?>

Ejemplo #2 Usar banderas

<?php
$fichero = 'gente.txt';
// La nueva persona a añdir al fichero
$persona = "John Smith\n";
// Escribir los contenidos en el fichero,
// usando la bandera FILE_APPEND para añadir el contenido al final del fichero
// y la bandera LOCK_EX para evitar que cualquiera escriba en el fichero al mismo tiempo
file_put_contents($fichero, $persona, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
?>

Historial de cambios

Versión	Descripción
5.1.0	Añadido el soporte para `LOCK_EX` y la capacidad de pasar un recurso de flujo al parámetro `data`

Notas

Nota: Esta función es segura binariamente.

Sugerencia

Se puede emplear un URL como nombre de fichero con esta función si las envolturas de fopen han sido activadas. Véase fopen() para más información de cómo especificar el nombre de fichero. Véanse las Protocolos y Envolturas soportados; continen enlaces con información sobre las diferentes capacidades que tienen las envolturas, notas sobre su empleo, e información de cualquier variable predefinida que podría proporcionarse.

Ver también

fopen() - Abre un fichero o un URL
fwrite() - Escritura de un archivo en modo binario seguro
file_get_contents() - Transmite un fichero completo a una cadena
stream_context_create() - Crear un contexto de flujo

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TrentTompkins at gmail dot com ¶

16 years ago


File put contents fails if you try to put a file in a directory that doesn't exist. This creates the directory.

<?php
    function file_force_contents($dir, $contents){
        $parts = explode('/', $dir);
        $file = array_pop($parts);
        $dir = '';
        foreach($parts as $part)
            if(!is_dir($dir .= "/$part")) mkdir($dir);
        file_put_contents("$dir/$file", $contents);
    }
?>

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justin dot carlson at gmail dot com ¶

13 years ago


It should be obvious that this should only be used if you're making one write, if you are writing multiple times to the same file you should handle it yourself with fopen and fwrite, the fclose when you are done writing.

Benchmark below:

file_put_contents() for 1,000,000 writes - average of 3 benchmarks:

 real 0m3.932s
 user 0m2.487s
 sys 0m1.437s

fopen() fwrite() for 1,000,000 writes, fclose() -  average of 3 benchmarks:

 real 0m2.265s
 user 0m1.819s
 sys 0m0.445s

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Anonymous ¶

2 years ago


A more simplified version of the method that creates subdirectories:

function path_put_contents($filePath, $contents, $flags = 0) {

    if (! is_dir($dir = implode('/', explode('/', $filePath, -1))))
        mkdir($dir, 0777, true);
    file_put_contents($filePath, $contents, $flags);
}

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maksam07 at gmail dot com ¶

5 years ago


A slightly simplified version of the method: http://php.net/manual/ru/function.file-put-contents.php#84180

<?php 
function file_force_contents( $fullPath, $contents, $flags = 0 ){
    $parts = explode( '/', $fullPath );
    array_pop( $parts );
    $dir = implode( '/', $parts );
    
    if( !is_dir( $dir ) )
        mkdir( $dir, 0777, true );
    
    file_put_contents( $fullPath, $contents, $flags );
}

file_force_contents( ROOT.'/newpath/file.txt', 'message', LOCK_EX );
?>

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deqode at felosity dot nl ¶

14 years ago


Please note that when saving using an FTP host, an additional stream context must be passed through telling PHP to overwrite the file.



<?php

 /* set the FTP hostname */

 $user = "test";

 $pass = "myFTP";

 $host = "example.com";

 $file = "test.txt";

 $hostname = $user . ":" . $pass . "@" . $host . "/" . $file;



 /* the file content */

 $content = "this is just a test.";

 

 /* create a stream context telling PHP to overwrite the file */

 $options = array('ftp' => array('overwrite' => true));

 $stream = stream_context_create($options);

 

 /* and finally, put the contents */

 file_put_contents($hostname, $content, 0, $stream);

?>

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chris at ocportal dot com ¶

11 years ago


It's important to understand that LOCK_EX will not prevent reading the file unless you also explicitly acquire a read lock (shared locked) with the PHP 'flock' function.

i.e. in concurrent scenarios file_get_contents may return empty if you don't wrap it like this:

<?php
$myfile=fopen('test.txt','rt');
flock($myfile,LOCK_SH);
$read=file_get_contents('test.txt');
fclose($myfile);
?>

If you have code that does a file_get_contents on a file, changes the string, then re-saves using file_put_contents, you better be sure to do this correctly or your file will randomly wipe itself out.

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egingell at sisna dot com ¶

18 years ago


In reply to the previous note:

If you want to emulate this function in PHP4, you need to return the bytes written as well as support for arrays, flags.

I can only figure out the FILE_APPEND flag and array support. If I could figure out "resource context" and the other flags, I would include those too.

<?

define('FILE_APPEND', 1);
function file_put_contents($n, $d, $flag = false) {
    $mode = ($flag == FILE_APPEND || strtoupper($flag) == 'FILE_APPEND') ? 'a' : 'w';
    $f = @fopen($n, $mode);
    if ($f === false) {
        return 0;
    } else {
        if (is_array($d)) $d = implode($d);
        $bytes_written = fwrite($f, $d);
        fclose($f);
        return $bytes_written;
    }
}

?>

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aabaev arroba gmail coma com ¶

8 years ago


I suggest to expand file_force_contents() function of TrentTompkins at gmail dot com by adding verification if patch is like: "../foo/bar/file"

if (strpos($dir, "../") === 0)
    $dir = str_replace("..", substr(__DIR__, 0, strrpos(__DIR__, "/")), $dir);

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Anonymous ¶

7 years ago


Make sure not to corrupt anything in case of failure.

<?php

function file_put_contents_atomically($filename, $data, $flags = 0, $context = null) {
    if (file_put_contents($filename."~", $data, $flags, $context) === strlen($contents)) {
        return rename($filename."~",$filename,$context);
    }

    @unlink($filename."~", $context);
    return FALSE;
}

?>

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aidan at php dot net ¶

20 years ago


This functionality is now implemented in the PEAR package PHP_Compat.

More information about using this function without upgrading your version of PHP can be found on the below link:

http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Compat

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vaneatona at gmail dot com ¶

7 years ago


I'm updating a function that was posted, as it would fail if there was no directory. It also returns the final value so you can determine if the actual file was written.

    public static function file_force_contents($dir, $contents){
        $parts = explode('/', $dir);
        $file = array_pop($parts);
        $dir = '';

        foreach($parts as $part) {
            if (! is_dir($dir .= "{$part}/")) mkdir($dir);
        }

        return file_put_contents("{$dir}{$file}", $contents);
    }

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ravianshmsr08 at gmail dot com ¶

13 years ago


To upload file from your localhost to any FTP server.

pease note 'ftp_chdir' has been used instead of putting direct remote file path....in ftp_put ...remoth file should be only file name



<?php

$host = '*****';

$usr = '*****';

$pwd = '**********';         

$local_file = './orderXML/order200.xml';

$ftp_path = 'order200.xml';

$conn_id = ftp_connect($host, 21) or die ("Cannot connect to host");      

ftp_pasv($resource, true);

ftp_login($conn_id, $usr, $pwd) or die("Cannot login");

// perform file upload

ftp_chdir($conn_id, '/public_html/abc/'); 

$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $ftp_path, $local_file, FTP_ASCII);

if($upload) { $ftpsucc=1; } else { $ftpsucc=0; }

// check upload status:

print (!$upload) ? 'Cannot upload' : 'Upload complete';

print "\n";

// close the FTP stream

ftp_close($conn_id);

?>

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curda222 at gmail dot com ¶

9 months ago


An improved and enraptured code from TrentTompkins at gmail dot com  

Note: Added error response 
Note: Added directory detection
Note: Added root detection
Note: Added permissions when creating folder

function file_force_contents($dir, $contents, $flags = 0){
    if (strpos($dir, "../") === 0){
        $dir = str_replace("..", substr(__DIR__, 0, strrpos(__DIR__, "/")), $dir);
    }
    $parts = explode('/', $dir);
    if(is_array($parts)){
        $file = array_pop($parts);
        $dir = '';
        foreach($parts as $part)
            if(!is_dir($dir .= "/$part")){
                mkdir($dir, 0777, true);
            }
            if(file_put_contents("$dir/$file", $contents, $flags) === false ){
            return false;
        }
    }else{
        if(file_put_contents("$dir", $contents, $flags) === false ){
            return false;
        } 
    }
}

-Oliver Leuyim Angel

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gurjindersingh at SPAM dot hotmail dot com ¶

10 years ago


File put contents fails if you try to put a file in a directory that doesn't exist. This function creates the directory.
 
i have updated code of "TrentTompkins at gmail dot com". thanks
<?php
/**
 * @param string $filename <p>file name including folder. 
 * example :: /path/to/file/filename.ext or filename.ext</p>
 * @param string $data <p> The data to write.
 * </p>
 * @param int $flags same flags used for file_put_contents.
 * more info: http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-put-contents.php
 * @return bool <b>TRUE</b> file created succesfully <br> <b>FALSE</b> failed to create file.
 */
function file_force_contents($filename, $data, $flags = 0){
    if(!is_dir(dirname($filename)))
        mkdir(dirname($filename).'/', 0777, TRUE);
    return file_put_contents($filename, $data,$flags);
}
// usage

file_force_contents('test1.txt','test1 content');  // test1.txt created

file_force_contents('test2/test2.txt','test2 content'); 
// test2/test2.txt created "test2" folder.  

file_force_contents('~/test3/test3.txt','test3 content'); 
// /path/to/user/directory/test3/test3.txt created "test3" folder in user directory (check on linux "ll ~/ | grep test3").  
?>

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Brandon Lockaby ¶

13 years ago


Calling file_put_contents within a destructor will cause the file to be written in SERVER_ROOT...

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vahkos at mail dot ru ¶

12 years ago


file_put_contents does not issue an error message if file name is incorrect(for example has improper symbols on the end of it /n,/t)

that is why use trim() for file name.

$name=trim($name);

file_put_contents($name,$content);

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error at example dot com ¶

13 years ago


It's worth noting that you must make sure to use the correct path when working with this function. I was using it to help with logging in an error handler and sometimes it would work - while other times it wouldn't. In the end it was because sometimes it was called from different paths resulting in a failure to write to the log file.

__DIR__ is your friend.

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John Galt ¶

15 years ago


I use file_put_contents() as a method of very simple hit counters. These are two different examples of extremely simple hit counters, put on one line of code, each.

Keep in mind that they're not all that efficient. You must have a file called counter.txt with the initial value of 0.

For a text hit counter:
<?php
 $counter = file_get_contents("counter.txt"); $counter++; file_put_contents("counter.txt", $counter); echo $counter;
?>

Or a graphic hit counter:
<?php
 $counter = file_get_contents("counter.txt"); $counter++; file_put_contents("counter.txt", $counter); for($i = 0; $i < strlen($counter); $i++) echo "<img src=\"counter/".substr($counter, $i, 1).".gif\" alt=\"".substr($counter, $i, 1)."\" />";
?>

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wjsams at gmail dot com ¶

15 years ago


file_put_contents() strips the last line ending

If you really want an extra line ending at the end of a file when writing with file_put_contents(), you must append an extra PHP_EOL to the end of the line as follows.

<?php
$a_str = array("these","are","new","lines");
$contents = implode(PHP_EOL, $a_str);
$contents .= PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;
file_put_contents("newfile.txt", $contents);
print("|$contents|");
?>

You can see that when you print $contents you get two extra line endings, but if you view the file newfile.txt, you only get one.

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