What is the php @ sign for

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What is the use of @ symbol in php?

Hello all, an easy one for you,

what does the @ sign mean when placed before a php function call?

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Answer 1

it means it won't print out any error in that function, if one occurs.

Answer 2

Suppress error reporting

Answer 3

PHP's error suppress operator used to suppress error messages.

SideNote: Avoid it as much as you can, also it slows down performance heavily :)

Answer 4

It's PHP's error control operator. In short, errors generated by an expression prepended with the symbol will be ignored.

From the manual: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php