it would be interesting on what os u are working as well. did u try to open the file? on windows often a file is reported as 0 bytes as of failing the refresh in explorer. ralph_deffke@xxxxxxxx "Andres Gonzalez" <andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4AAE510E.8030005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > I have read in the contents of a file using file_get_contents. I can verify > that the data has actually been read in by echoing its contents. > > But then if I do this: > > $ret = file_put_contents("/tmp/bla", $bk); > > The return value gives the correct size of string $bk, and the file /tmp/bla > is created in /tmp, but the length is 0. > > Why are not the contents written to the file? > > -Andres -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php