Do we need to close file_get_contents?

Question

I'm running file_get_contents() inside a loop, I see a lot of files opened in the Apache log. I don't know the reason behind it. Do we need to close the file_get_contents() function after each read?

Answer 1

file_get_contents() reads a file and closes the file afterwards. It returns the read data or false, so you have no file handle to use with an fclose(), anyway.