fclose

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

fclose -- Closes an open file pointer

Description

bool fclose ( int fp)

The file pointed to by fp is closed.

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen() or fsockopen().

Example 1. A simple fclose() example

<?php

  $fp = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r');
  
  fclose($fp);
  
?>