[PHP-NOTES] note 130545 added to function.fopen

[email protected] ("[email protected]") Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:54:52 +0000
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
i had to do such function to display newest log entries on top to be displayed in browser
its easy to adjust it from anonymous to normal function and/or add content on end
most important is same log can be used by many threads/processes (Swoole, ReactPHP, php_fpm)
also it had to keep reasonable size to load fast

$prependFileThreadSafe = static function (string $file, string $content, int $maxLen = 1024*500): void {
    $f = fopen($file, 'c+');
    flock($f, LOCK_EX);
    $prev = fread($f, $maxLen-strlen($content));
    fseek($f, 0);
    fwrite($f, $content . $prev);
    flock($f, LOCK_UN);
    fclose($f);
};

usage:
$prependFileThreadSafe('my.log', "some content\n");
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Server IP: 45.112.84.4
Probable Submitter: 80.90.5.137 (proxied: 178.219.142.108)
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Manual Page -- https://php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
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