I need to read and write an array from/to a file.
The file is filled like this:
<?php
return array(
'Key' => 'value'
);
?>
I'm already able to read this file using
$data = include($path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $file);
How can i write this array back to the file while keeping the structure of '<?php return array(); ?>'?
You can use var_export function:
file_put_contents(
$path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $file,
"<?php\nreturn " . var_export($data, true) . "\n?>"
);
better way to store json string in file than again accesss this string to array.
You can use serialize() to store an array or object into a string. This code shows how it is done:
<?php
$array = ['Key' => 'value'];
$fh = fopen('array.txt','a+');
fwrite($fh, serialize($array));
fclose($fh);
$read_array = unserialize(file_get_contents('array.txt'));
var_dump($array,$read_array);
/*
OUTPUTS
array(1) {
["Key"]=>
string(5) "value"
}
array(1) {
["Key"]=>
string(5) "value"
}
/*
file_put_contents()+var_export()