Bug #3926

File_CVS gives no way to CLOSE a file handle

Details

Request #3926	File_CVS gives no way to CLOSE a file handle
Submitted	2005-03-23 04:53 UTC
From	tommythekid at mac dot com
Status	Bogus
Package	File
PHP Version	5.0.3
OS	solaris sparc
Roadmaps	(Not assigned)

Comments

[2005-03-23 04:53 UTC] tommythekid at mac dot com

Description:
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I cannot use File_CSV::write($filename, $data, $conf) because it seems to manage its own filehandles .. which I am sure is nice, but it makes it hard to close said file handle to then send the file to a user with HTTP_Download.

Tommy

Reproduce code:
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function generateCSVFile($txn_id) {
global $debug;

$conf = array (
'fields' => 31,
'sep' => ",",
'quote' => '"',
'header' => TRUE
);

$TempFileName = File::getTempFile();
$data = getQuotesForTransaction($txn_id);
foreach ($data as $value) {
File_CSV::write($TempFileName, $value, $conf);
}
return $TempFileName;
}

.. then try to send $TempFileName to someone.. it comes up as zero length cause its still "open" (and not written to disk) till the script exits.

Expected result:
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It should behave like all other PEAR things.. make an object set the params then it should have a destructor like $csvfile->close();

(aka a function close():) :)

Tommy

Actual result:
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since the file is not "written" to disk, when I try to send it to the user via HTTP_Download, the user gets a blank file.

A possible workaround would maybe be:

$pointer = File_CSV::getPointer($filename, $conf, FILE_MODE_WRITE);

flcose($pointer);

[2005-03-23 04:56 UTC] tommythekid at mac dot com

uh.. fclose($pointer);

.. and that may be all thats needed for the close($filename) function anyhow :)

[2005-08-24 04:05 UTC] tommythekid at mac dot com

FWIW, I am sorry, the problem turned out to actually be a PHP/NSAPI problem.

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32424

~tommy