A hint for PHP beginners like me:
The buffered output which is write by fflush() has nothing to do with the output buffer which is initiated by the ob_start() function.
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
fflush — Schreibt den Ausgabepuffer in eine Datei
Diese Funktion erzwingt das Schreiben des gesamten Ausgabepuffers
in die von dem Dateizeiger stream
angegebene
Datei.
stream
Der Zeiger auf eine Datei muss gültig sein und auf eine Datei verweisen, die vorher erfolgreich mit fopen() oder fsockopen() geöffnet (und nicht bereits von fclose() geschlossen) wurde.
Gibt bei Erfolg true
zurück. Bei einem Fehler wird false
zurückgegeben.
Beispiel #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);
?>
A hint for PHP beginners like me:
The buffered output which is write by fflush() has nothing to do with the output buffer which is initiated by the ob_start() function.
Sorry, the note I previously added regarding fflush() has a bug!
when you read file by calling
$fp = fopen("myfile", "a+");
and you wish to read the content, you have to call
rewind($fp) before you attemp to read it. (Silly me) Or else if you tried something like
$fp = fopen("myfile", "a+");
$content = fread($fp);
// show that content is in fact null
if ($content == NULL)
print "but it must be first put to rewind<br>\n";
will result
but it must be first put to rewind.
[new line]
in fact, if you are not careful (like me), and you opened it with
$fp = fopen("myfile", "r+");
$content = fread($fp);
..
// do something with content
..
then you tried to again
$content = fread($fp);
without rewind, you'd get NULL again. This sounds trivial, but if you work with several file resources, with freads and fopens everywhere, you can get easily lost. So becareful.