fflush

Flushes the output to a file

Description

bool fflush(resource $stream)

This function forces a write of all buffered output to the resource pointed to by the file 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 on success or false on failure.

Examples

Example #1 File write example using fflush

<?php
$filename = 'bar.txt';

$file = fopen($filename, 'r+');
rewind($file);
fwrite($file, 'Foo');
fflush($file);
ftruncate($file, ftell($file));
fclose($file);
?>

See Also

  • clearstatcache
  • fwrite