What does it mean to "pass the filename/address to a stream" in PHP commands?

To "pass the filename/address to a stream" in PHP commands means to provide the location of a file or resource that the stream will read from or write to. This is commonly done when working with file handling functions in PHP, such as fopen() or file_get_contents(). By passing the filename/address to a stream, you are specifying the source or destination of the data being read or written by the stream. 

// Example of passing the filename/address to a stream
$filename = 'example.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename, 'r');
if ($handle) {
    // File opened successfully, perform operations
    fclose($handle);
} else {
    // Error opening file
    echo 'Error opening file: ' . $filename;
}

Keywords

PHP stream filename address command

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