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 — Vuelca la salida a un archivo
Esta función fuerza una escritura de todas las salidas del buffer a un recurso
apuntado por el archivo handle
.
handle
El fichero al que se apunta debe ser válido, y debe apuntar a un fichero abierto por fopen() o fsockopen() (y que todavía no esté cerrado por fclose()).
Devuelve true
en caso de éxito o false
en caso de error.
Ejemplo #1 Ejemplo de escritura de un archivo usando fflush()
<?php
$nombre_archivo = 'bar.txt';
$archivo = fopen($nombre_archivo, 'r+');
rewind($archivo);
fwrite($archivo, 'Foo');
fflush($archivo);
ftruncate($archivo, ftell($archivo));
fclose($archivo);
?>
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.