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file_put_contents

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file_put_contentsEscreve dados em um arquivo

Descrição

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

Esta função é idêntica a chamar fopen(), fwrite() e fclose() sucessivamente para escrever dados em um arquivo.

Se o arquivo informado em filename não existir, o arquivo é criado. Do contrário, o arquivo existente é sobrescrito, a não ser que a opção FILE_APPEND seja definida.

Parâmetros

filename

O caminho para o arquivo onde os dados serão escritos.

data

Os dados a serem escritos. Pode ser uma string, um array ou um recurso stream.

Se data for um recurso stream, o buffer restante desse fluxo será copiado para o arquivo especificado, semelhante à utilização de stream_copy_to_stream().

Você também pode especificar o parâmetro data como um array unidimensional. Isso é equivalente a file_put_contents($filename, implode('', $array)).

flags

O valor de flags pode ser qualquer combinação das seguintes opções, adicionadas com o operador binário OR (|).

Opções disponíveis
Opção Descrição
FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH Procura o arquivo filename nos diretórios de include. Consulte include_path para mais informações.
FILE_APPEND Se o arquivo filename já existir, acrescenta os dados ao arquivo ao invés de sobrescrevê-lo.
LOCK_EX Adquire uma trava exclusiva no arquivo ao prosseguir para a escrita. Em outras palavras, uma chamada a flock() acontece entre a chamada fopen() e a chamada fwrite(). Isso não é idêntico à uma chamada fopen() com modo "x".

context

Um recurso de contexto válido criado com stream_context_create().

Valor Retornado

Esta função retorna a quantidade de bytes que foi escrita no arquivo ou false em caso de falha.

Aviso

Esta função pode retornar o valor booleano false, mas também pode retornar um valor não booleano que pode ser avaliado como false. Leia a seção sobre Booleanos para mais informações. Use o operador === para testar o valor retornado por esta função.

Exemplos

Exemplo #1 Exemplo de uso simples

<?php
$file
= 'people.txt';
// Abre o arquivo para obter o conteúdo existente
$current = file_get_contents($file);
// Acrescenta a nova pessoa no arquivo
$current .= "John Smith\n";
// Escreve o conteúdo de volta no arquivo
file_put_contents($file, $current);
?>

Exemplo #2 Usando flags

<?php
$file
= 'people.txt';
// A nova pessoa para adicionar no arquivo
$person = "John Smith\n";
// Escreve o conteúdo no arquivo,
// usando a flag FILE_APPEND para acrescentar o conteúdo no fim do arquivo
// e a flag LOCK_EX para evitar que outra pessoa escreva no arquivo ao mesmo tempo
file_put_contents($file, $person, FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
?>

Notas

Nota: Esta função é compatível com dados binários.

Dica

Uma URL pode ser usada como um nome de arquivo com esta função se os wrappers fopen estiverem habilitados. Consulte a função fopen() para mais detalhes sobre como especificar o nome do arquivo. Consulte os Protocolos e Wrappers suportados para obter links para informações sobre as capacidades de cada wrapper, notas de uso e informações sobre quaisquer variáveis predefinidas que eles possam fornecer.

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User Contributed Notes 19 notes

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TrentTompkins at gmail dot com
15 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
12 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
1 year 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
10 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
17 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
7 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
19 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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John Galt
14 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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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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Brandon Lockaby
12 years ago
Calling file_put_contents within a destructor will cause the file to be written in SERVER_ROOT...
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wjsams at gmail dot com
14 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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gurjindersingh at SPAM dot hotmail dot com
9 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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curda222 at gmail dot com
1 month 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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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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