PHP: Get the path of tmpfile

tmpfile is a very handy function to create temporary files. It returns the file handle/resource. If the path of the file is needed, for use with file_put_contents for example then here is a quick trick to do that

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$path = array_search('uri', @array_flip(stream_get_meta_data($GLOBALS[mt_rand()]=tmpfile()))); file_put_contents($path, 'hello'); echo file_get_contents($path);