fclose

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

Closes an open file pointer

bool fclose ( resource $handle )

The file pointed to by handle is closed.

Parameters:

handle

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

Returns:

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples:

A simple fclose() example

<?php

$handle = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r');

fclose($handle);

?>