Wednesday, 3 August 2016

operators - What is the use of the @ symbol in PHP?



I have seen uses of @ in front of certain functions, like the following:




$fileHandle = @fopen($fileName, $writeAttributes);


What is the use of this symbol?


Answer



It suppresses error messages — see Error Control Operators in the PHP manual.


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