How to overwrite file contents with new content in PHP?

I use file_put_contents for that.

For example,

file_put_contents('file.txt', 'Yogesh');
echo file_get_contents('file.txt'); // Yogesh
file_put_contents('file.txt', 'Chauhan');
echo file_get_contents('file.txt'); // Chauhan

I have tried to do the same with fopen()  and  w+ mode as well. That works pretty well too.

• 'w' ->     Open for writing only; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file and truncate the file to zero length. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.


• 'w+'->     Open for reading and writing; place the file pointer at the beginning of the file and truncate the file to zero length. If the file does not exist, attempt to create it.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

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