PHP: Do we have any command via which we can delete the contents of an file without opening it.
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Is there any way to remove the contents of an file in php, do we have any php command that does that, I know unlink
but I do not want to delete the file instead I just want to remove the contents of that file.
I have an file which I pass while called a getCurrentDBSnap
function, it takes in the file from /home/test/incoming
folder and populates currentDB table state into the file using fputcsv
and puts back file to /home/test/outgoing
.
Currently file stays in incoming folder and when I can call the function getCurrentDBSnap
it would take the file and override with latest state of DB into it.
Q: My question is, is it possible instead of overwriting the file, we can remove the content of file after ever getCurrentDBSnap
such that file in incoming folder would be always empty ?
Hope it makes sense :)
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