I created a bunch of tempnam()
files for use during my request. Do I need to specifically unlink()
them when they're not needed anymore, or will PHP / the system take care of it themselves?
CodePudding user response:
Files created by tempnam()
will not be deleted by PHP.
You'll have to unlink()
them manually.
If you need a temporary file thats automatically deleted by PHP, consider using tmpfile()
:
Creates a temporary file
The file is automatically removed when closed (for example, by calling
fclose()
, or when there are no remaining references to the file handle returned bytmpfile()
), or when the script ends.
CodePudding user response:
Yes, unlink (delete) temp files when you're done with them. Some, but not all, OSs clean up their temp directories once in a while. But tempname()
uses directories other than the OS temp directories.