What alternatives to using fseek() in PHP exist for writing text to a specific position in a file, and what are the advantages of these alternatives?

When writing text to a specific position in a file in PHP, an alternative to using fseek() is to read the entire file, modify the desired portion, and then rewrite the entire file with the modifications. This approach ensures that the file is updated with the new text at the specified position without directly manipulating the file pointer. 

$file = 'example.txt';
$position = 10;
$text = "inserted text";

// Read the entire file
$content = file_get_contents($file);

// Insert text at the specified position
$content = substr_replace($content, $text, $position, 0);

// Write the modified content back to the file
file_put_contents($file, $content);

Keywords

file_put_contents fwrite SplFileObject stream context file handling

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