writing data to a file file_put_contents()

This function is identical to calling fopen(), fwrite() and fclose() successively to write data to a file.

<?php
$file="/var/www/htm/data.txt";
$data=$argv[1];
$data.="\n";
file_put_contents("$file", $data,FILE_APPEND);
?>

php write.php "ambiorix rodriguez placencio"