fclose
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
fclose — Closes an open file pointer
Description
$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);
?>