rewind
PHP function
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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Rewind the position of a file pointer
Description
rewind(resource $stream): bool
Sets the file position indicator for stream to the beginning of the file stream.
Note
If you have opened the file in append ("a" or "a+") mode, any data you write to the file will always be appended, regardless of the file pointer position.
Parameters
streamThe file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by
fopen().
Return Values
Success
Examples
rewind() overwriting example
php
<?php
$handle = fopen('output.txt', 'r+');
fwrite($handle, 'Really long sentence.');
rewind($handle);
fwrite($handle, 'Foo');
rewind($handle);
echo fread($handle, filesize('output.txt'));
fclose($handle);
?>The above example will output something similar to:
output
Foolly long sentence.