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fclose

(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)

fclose -- Closes an open file pointer

Description

bool fclose ( resource handle )

The file pointed to by handle is closed.

Parameters

handle

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()
fsockopen()

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