file handling

write to first line of file

this snippet let's you insert data at the beginning of a file.
it reads the contents and adds new data to the first line of the file.
after this it joins the lines and writes them back to the file again.

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1	<?php
2	// your new data + newline
3	$new_line = 'some new data here'."n";
4	// the filepath
5	$file = 'temp/file.txt';
6	// the old data as array
7	$old_lines = file($file);
8	// add new line to beginning of array
9	array_unshift($old_lines,$new_line);
10	// make string out of array
11	$new_content = join('',$old_lines);
12	$fp = fopen($file,'w');
13	// write string to file
14	$write = fwrite($fp, $new_content);
15	fclose($fp);
16	?>

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