Can I close a file by unsetting the handle?

Question

I\'m a little puzzled if I can spare the fclose command by just unsetting the variable that carries the handle?

$handle = fopen($file);
...
fclo         


        

Answer 1

some research:

fclose makes $handle to be resource(5) of type (Unknown) while

unset makes it NULL.

and after fclose php consumes 88 bytes of memory more.

so: they are different =)