PHP filesize reporting old size

Question

The following code is part of a PHP web-service I\'ve written. It takes some uploaded Base64 data, decodes it, and appends it to a file. This all works fine.

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Answer 1

PHP stores all file metadata it reads in a cache, so it's likely that the file size is already stored in that cache, and you need to clear it. See clearstatcache and call it before you call filesize.