# feof

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

feof — Tests for end-of-file on a file pointer

### Description

bool feof ( resource `$handle` )

Tests for end-of-file on a file pointer.

### Parameters

`handle`

  The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen() or fsockopen() (and not yet closed by fclose()).

### Return Values

Returns `TRUE` if the file pointer is at EOF or an error occurs (including socket timeout); otherwise returns `FALSE`.

### Notes

Warning

If a connection opened by fsockopen() wasn't closed by the server, feof() will wait until a timeout has been reached to return `TRUE`. The default timeout value is 60 seconds. You may use stream_set_timeout() to change this value.

Warning

If passed file pointer is not valid you may get an infinite loop, because EOF fails to return TRUE.

Example#1 feof() example with an invalid file pointer

`<?php
// if file can not be read or doesn't exist fopen function returns FALSE
$file = @fopen("no_such_file", "r");
// FALSE from fopen will issue warning and result in infinite loop here
while (!feof($file)) {
}
fclose($file);
?>`