file_put_contents and php4

I have a script that works on php5 but not on my php4 servers, I need some help to recode this part. I have found some tutorials online but just can`t make them work...

Here is what I have:

file_put_contents('1count', 0);

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How can I code this to work on php4?

[edit] I have managed to make it work on php 4, here is the code that I added before the old code:

function file_put_contents($filename, $data)
{
  if( $file = fopen($filename, 'w') )
  {
    $bytes = fwrite($file, is_array($data) ? implode('', $data) : $data);
    fclose($file); return $bytes; // return the number of bytes written to the file
  }
}

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