note 6085 modified in function.fputs by felipe

The way I understand fputs (which is purported as an alias to fwrite which can be "Binary Safe")... <?php $fp = fopen("something.txt","w"); $string = "Hello World\\n"; // escape the slash from being magically // being transformed into a newline fwrite($fp, $string); // will proccess /n as newline ... fwrite($fp, $string, strlen($string)); // will write the entire string to file without changing the '/n' // into a single byte for newline on Unix-like machines or CR/LF on Win32 machines ?> Hope this helps explain the definition of "could be Binary Safe". This is the reason why you must specify the length! --Doug --was-- The way I understand fputs (which is purported as an alias to fwrite which can be "Binary Safe")... $fp = fopen("something.txt","w"); $string = "Hello World\\n"; // escape the slash from being magically // being transformed into a newline fwrite($fp, $string); // will proccess /n as newline ... fwrite($fp, $string, strlen($string)); // will write the entire string to file without changing the '/n' // into a single byte for newline on Unix-like machines or CR/LF on Win32 machines Hope this helps explain the definition of "could be Binary Safe". This is the reason why you must specify the length! --Doug http://php.net/manual/en/function.fputs.php