feof
Tests for end-of-file on a file pointer
Description
bool feof(resource $stream)
Parameters
-
stream
-
The file pointer must be valid, and must point to
a file successfully opened by fopen or
fsockopen (and not yet closed by
fclose).
Return Values
Returns true if the file pointer is at EOF or an error occurs
(including socket timeout); otherwise returns false.
Notes
Warning
If a connection opened by fsockopen wasn't closed
by the server, feof will hang. To workaround this, see
below example:
Example #1 Handling timeouts with feof
<?php
function safe_feof($fp, &$start = NULL) {
$start = microtime(true);
return feof($fp);
}
/* Assuming $fp is previously opened by fsockopen() */
$start = NULL;
$timeout = ini_get('default_socket_timeout');
while(!safe_feof($fp, $start) && (microtime(true) - $start) < $timeout)
{
/* Handle */
}
?>
Warning
If the passed file pointer is not valid you may get an infinite loop, because
feof fails to return true.
Example #2 feof example with an invalid file pointer
<?php
// if file can not be read or doesn't exist fopen function returns FALSE
$file = @fopen("no_such_file", "r");
// FALSE from fopen will issue warning and result in infinite loop here
while (!feof($file)) {
}
fclose($file);
?>