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fflush

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(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Flushes the output to a file

Description

fflush(resource $stream): bool

This function forces a write of all buffered output to the resource pointed to by the file stream.

Parameters

stream

All

Return Values

Success

Examples

File write example using fflush()

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

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

See Also

Source: reference/filesystem/functions/fflush.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)