fclose

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

fclose — Closes an open file pointer

Description

fclose(resource $stream): bool

The file pointed to by stream is closed.

Parameters

stream

The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen() or fsockopen().

Return Values

Returns true on success or false on failure.

Examples

Example #1 A simple fclose() example

<?php

$handle = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r');

fclose($handle);

?>

See Also

  • fopen() - Opens file or URL
  • fsockopen() - Open Internet or Unix domain socket connection