Write to a file from PHP

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Rewrite Data

If we were to run this very same thing again only using different data, it would erase all of our current data, and replace it with the new data. Here is an example:

 <?php 
 $File = "YourFile.txt"; 
 $Handle = fopen($File, 'w');
 $Data = "John Henry\n"; 
 fwrite($Handle, $Data); 
 $Data = "Abigail Yearwood\n"; 
 fwrite($Handle, $Data); 
 print "Data Written"; 
 fclose($Handle); 
 ?>

The file we created, YourFile.txt, now contains this data:
John Henry
Abigail Yearwood