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  <refentry id="function.file-put-contents">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>file_put_contents</refname> 
    <refpurpose>Write a string to a file</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>int</type><methodname>file_put_contents</methodname>
      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>filename</parameter></methodparam>
      <methodparam><type>mixed</type><parameter>data</parameter></methodparam>
      <methodparam choice="opt"><type>int</type><parameter>flags</parameter></methodparam>
      <methodparam choice="opt"><type>resource</type><parameter>context</parameter></methodparam>
     </methodsynopsis>
    <simpara> 
     Identical to calling <function>fopen</function>, <function>fwrite</function>,
     and <function>fclose</function> successively. The function returns the
     amount of bytes that were written to the file.
    </simpara>
    <simpara>
     <parameter>flags</parameter> can take <constant>FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH</constant>
     and/or <constant>FILE_APPEND</constant>, however the
     <constant>FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH</constant> option should be used with caution.
    </simpara>
    <para>
     You can also specify the <parameter>data</parameter> parameter as an array
     (not multi-dimension arrays). This is equivalent to
     <literal>file_put_contents($filename, join('', $array))</literal>.
    </para>
    &note.bin-safe;
    &tip.fopen-wrapper;
    <simpara>
     See also 
     <function>fopen</function>,
     <function>fwrite</function>,
     <function>fclose</function>, and
     <function>file_get_contents</function>.
    </simpara>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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