Joomla! Documentation™

Description

Seek the file Note: the return value is different to that of fseek

Syntax

seek($offset, $whence=SEEK_SET)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$offset		Offset to use when seeking
$whence	SEEK_SET	Seek mode to use

Returns

boolean True on success, false on failure

Defined in

libraries/joomla/filesystem/stream.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.filesystem.stream' );

Source Body

function seek($offset, $whence=SEEK_SET)
{
        if(!$this->_fh)
        {
                $this->setError(JText::_('File not open'));
                return false;
        }
        $retval = false;
        // Capture PHP errors
        $php_errormsg = '';
        $track_errors = ini_get('track_errors');
        ini_set('track_errors', true);
        switch($this->processingmethod)
        {
                case 'gz':
                        $res = gzseek($this->_fh, $offset, $whence);
                        break;
                case 'bz':
                case 'f':
                default:
                        $res = fseek($this->_fh, $offset, $whence);
                        break;
        }
        // seek, interestingly returns 0 on success or -1 on failure
        if($res == -1) {
                $this->setError($php_errormsg);
        } else {
                $retval = true;
        }

        // restore error tracking to what it was before
        ini_set('track_errors',$track_errors);
        // return the result
        return $retval;
}