The fclose() function closes an open file pointer. The function returns TRUE on success and FALSE on failure.
Syntax
fclose(file_pointer)
Parameters
file_pointer − The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen() or fsockopen().
Return
The fclose() function returns.
- TRUE on success
- FALSE on failure
Example
<?php
$file_pointer = fopen('amit.txt', 'r');
fclose($file_pointer);
?>Output
true
Let us see another example. This shows a file which is opened, the content is returned using fgetsss and the file is closed with file pointer using file pointer.
Example
<?php
$file_pointer = @fopen("/documents/new.php", "r");
if ($file_pointer) {
while (!feof($file_pointer)) {
$buffer = fgetss($file_pointer, 1024);
echo $buffer;
}
fclose($file_pointer);
}
?>Output
This is demo text