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Overview

The FileWriter class provides a simple and robust utility for writing content to files with various operations like overwriting, appending, and prepending.

Installation

Install via Composer:

composer require yohns/filewriter

Requirements

• PHP 7.4+
• Ext-fileinfo recommended

Usage Examples

Basic File Writing

use Yohns\Util\FileWriter;

// Create a new FileWriter instance
$fileWriter = new FileWriter('path/to/your/file.txt');

// Overwrite file content
$fileWriter->overwrite("Hello, world!\n");

// Append to file
$fileWriter->append("Additional content\n");

// Prepend to file
$fileWriter->prepend("Initial content\n");

Handling File Operations

$fileWriter = new FileWriter('logs/app.log');

// Safely write content, with error handling
if (!$fileWriter->append("Log entry: " . date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n")) {
    // Handle writing error
    error_log("Could not write to log file");
}

Features

• Automatic directory creation
• File creation if not exists
• Overwrite, append, and prepend operations
• File locking to prevent race conditions

Error Handling

Methods return boolean values:

• true: Operation successful
• false: Operation failed

License

MIT License