In reply to the previous note:

If you want to emulate this function in PHP4, you need to return the bytes written as well as support for arrays, flags.

I can only figure out the FILE_APPEND flag and array support. If I could figure out "resource context" and the other flags, I would include those too.

<?

define('FILE_APPEND', 1);
function file_put_contents($n, $d, $flag = false) {
    $mode = ($flag == FILE_APPEND || strtoupper($flag) == 'FILE_APPEND') ? 'a' : 'w';
    $f = @fopen($n, $mode);
    if ($f === false) {
        return 0;
    } else {
        if (is_array($d)) $d = implode($d);
        $bytes_written = fwrite($f, $d);
        fclose($f);
        return $bytes_written;
    }
}

?>