For the record, the example given here has an explicit command to truncate the file, however with a 'write mode' of 'w', it will do this for you automatically, so the truncate call is not needed.
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7)
SplFileObject::flock — Portable file locking
$operation
[, int &$wouldblock
] ) : boolLocks or unlocks the file in the same portable way as flock().
operation
operation is one of the following:
LOCK_SH to acquire a shared lock (reader).
LOCK_EX to acquire an exclusive lock (writer).
LOCK_UN to release a lock (shared or exclusive).
It is also possible to add LOCK_NB as a bitmask to one
of the above operations, if flock() should not
block during the locking attempt.
wouldblock
Set to true if the lock would block (EWOULDBLOCK errno condition).
Întoarce valoarea true în cazul
succesului sau false în cazul eșecului.
Example #1 SplFileObject::flock() example
<?php
$file = new SplFileObject("/tmp/lock.txt", "w");
if ($file->flock(LOCK_EX)) { // do an exclusive lock
$file->ftruncate(0); // truncate file
$file->fwrite("Write something here\n");
$file->flock(LOCK_UN); // release the lock
} else {
echo "Couldn't get the lock!";
}
?>
For the record, the example given here has an explicit command to truncate the file, however with a 'write mode' of 'w', it will do this for you automatically, so the truncate call is not needed.