PHP 4.0 Bug #8002 Updated: PHP caches files opened with file().

ID: 8002 Updated by: stas Reported By: brett_paul@mindspring.com Status: Closed Bug Type: Directory function related Assigned To: Comments: PHP does not cache results of file(), but your browser probably caches results of your page. Try to disable caching in your browser. Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-28 01:03:28] brett_paul@mindspring.com I have a page that I am using to edit files on my site. I read the file using file() and show it in a textarea. I save changes to the file. Upon reloading the page, it does not reflect those changes in the newly presented HTML page (even with a hard refresh), but the underlying file was changed successfully (verified this). Seems to be caching file() reads. A call to clearstatcache() does not clear this. Getting an error seems to clear it, however. Here's the code. $filename is posted from an HTML form: <? if (!isset($filename)) { $sLocation = dirname($HTTP_REFERER)."index.html"; header("location:$sLocation"); } $filename = "c:\xitami\webpages\".$filename; echo "<HTML>n<head><title>Edit file $filename </title></head>n"; echo "<body bgcolor="eadfdf" basefont size=4>n"; if (!isset($new)) { $new = FALSE; } echo "<form action="savefile.php" method="post">n"; if ($new == TRUE) { echo "Filename: <input name="filename" length="30"><br>n"; $contents = ""; } else { echo "Filename: $filename<input name="filename" type="hidden" value="$filename"><br>n"; clearstatcache(); $contents = file($filename); $contents = implode($contents, ""); } $contents = stripcslashes($contents); echo "<textarea name="contents" cols=75 rows=20 wrap="hard">$contents</textarea>n"; echo "<input type="submit" value="save">n"; echo "</form>n"; ?> </body> </html> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=8002