# @ symbol in PHP

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**Created:** [October 27, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-in-php/167412 "2005-10-27T22:54:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/symbol-in-php/167412/1 "2005-10-27T22:54:02Z")

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What is the @ symbol in PHP.

I see it used in var assigning like this:

$myvar = @file(blahblah);  
$myvar = @somefunction();  
and other stuff.

All I can learn after a bunch of reading is that it has to do with resource type.  
But @ isnt google searchable, and I just randomly see it in sourcecode all over the place.

:-o help :-o