diff --git a/reference/filesystem/functions/file-put-contents.xml b/reference/filesystem/functions/file-put-contents.xml
index ae56b58479..c83ea53622 100644
--- a/reference/filesystem/functions/file-put-contents.xml
+++ b/reference/filesystem/functions/file-put-contents.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.16 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.17 $ -->
 <refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.file-put-contents">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>file_put_contents</refname> 
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
    <function>fwrite</function> and <function>fclose</function> successively
    to write data to a file.
   </para>
+  <para>
+   If <parameter>filename</parameter> does not exist, the file is created.
+   Otherwise, the existing file is overwritten, unless the 
+   <constant>FILE_APPEND</constant> flags is set.
+  </para>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1 role="parameters">