fclose

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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Closes an open file pointer

Description

fclose(resource $stream): bool

The file pointed to by stream is closed.

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

Success

A simple fclose() example

php

<?php

$handle = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r');

fclose($handle);

?>