php - is there a better way to do this? fopen, fread, fwrite -

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is there better way this:

$countfile = fopen("count.txt", 'r'); $read = fread($ebf, filesize("count.txt"));  $ebn = $read+1; fclose($ebf); $ebf = fopen($ebc, 'w'); fwrite($ebf, $ebn); 

i wrote script counting visits

you can achieve same results via file_get_contents , file_put_contents:

$read = file_get_contents("count.txt"); $ebn = $read+1; file_put_contents($ebc, $ebn);