Replace string in file using PHP

Last updated on May 19th, 2016 at 05:13 pm

Replace string in file using PHP

Once the file is replaced we can use PHP to save the file as well. A very simple example. Here test_file.php is the php file which contain an IP address (127.0.0.1) and I am going to replace that IP address from 127.0.0.1 to 127.1.9.9 , Once that is replace we are using fwrite() function in PHP to save the replaced file with the new IP address.

//read the entire string
$str=implode("",file('../test_file.php'));
$fp=fopen('../test_file.php','w');
//replace something in the file string, here i am replacing an IP address from  127.0.0.1 to 127.1.9.9
$str=str_replace('127.0.0.1','127.1.9.9',$str);
//now, save the file
fwrite($fp,$str,strlen($str));