<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >tmpfile</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="tempnam" HREF="function.tempnam.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="touch" HREF="function.touch.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.tempnam.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.touch.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.tmpfile" ></A >tmpfile</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN27070" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.13, PHP 4 )</P >tmpfile -- Creates a temporary file</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN27073" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >tmpfile</B > ( void)<BR ></BR ><P > Creates a temporary file with an unique name in write mode, returning a file handle similar to the one returned by <A HREF="function.fopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fopen()</B ></A >. The file is automatically removed when closed (using <A HREF="function.fclose.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fclose()</B ></A >), or when the script ends. </P ><P > For details, consult your system documentation on the <TT CLASS="literal" >tmpfile(3)</TT > function, as well as the <TT CLASS="filename" >stdio.h</TT > header file. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN27086" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >tmpfile()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$temp = tmpfile(); fwrite($temp, "writing to tempfile"); fclose($temp); // this removes the file</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.tempnam.html" ><B CLASS="function" >tempnam()</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.tempnam.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.touch.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >tempnam</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" >touch</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >