[SOLVED] what does "@" do? google search not helping me..! D:

[physaux]

None of the seaches are letting me search for it, not even in ""...

Could somebody please tell me what the "@" symbol does?

I have seen it used as such:

<?php
$fp = @fopen($cachefile, 'w');
echo $cachefile;
// save the contents of output buffer to the file
@fwrite($fp, ob_get_contents());
@fclose($fp);

ob_end_flush();
?>

[marcus]

It suppresses errors.

[physaux]

thanks

[Mchl]

It suppresses error messages. Error are still there.

[salathe]

The relevant page in the manual is: http://php.net/operators.errorcontrol