<?php $binfile = "data.txt"; if (file_exists ($binfile)){ try { if ($readfile = fopen ($binfile, "rb+")){ $curtext = fread ($readfile,100); echo $curtext; //Hello World! fwrite ($readfile, "Hi World!"); fclose ($readfile); } } catch (exception $e) { echo $e->getmessage(); } } else { echo "Sorry, file does not exist."; } ?>