PHP Manual: Write to file

public intfalse SplFileObject::fwrite(string $data, int $length = 0)

Writes the contents of data to the file

data: The string to be written to the file.
length: If the length argument is given, writing will stop after length bytes have been written or the end of data is reached, whichever comes first.

Returns the number of bytes written, or false on error.

Version	Description
7.4.0	The function now returns `false` instead of zero on failure.

Example #1 SplFileObject::fwrite example

<?php
$file = new SplFileObject("fwrite.txt", "w");
$written = $file->fwrite("12345");
echo "Wrote $written bytes to file";
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Wrote 5 bytes to file

SplFileObject::fwrite