<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >rewind</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Filesystem functions" HREF="ref.filesystem.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="rename" HREF="function.rename.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="rmdir" HREF="function.rmdir.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.rename.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.rmdir.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.rewind" ></A >rewind</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN26917" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >rewind -- Rewind the position of a file pointer</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN26920" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >rewind</B > ( resource handle)<BR ></BR ><P > Sets the file position indicator for <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >handle</I ></TT > to the beginning of the file stream. </P ><P > If an error occurs, returns 0, otherwise it returns 1. </P ><P > The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by <A HREF="function.fopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fopen()</B ></A >. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > If you have opened the file in append ("a") mode, any data you write to the file will always be appended, regardless of the file position. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.fseek.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fseek()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.ftell.html" ><B CLASS="function" >ftell()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.rename.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.rmdir.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >rename</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.filesystem.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >rmdir</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >