title: PHP: file_get_contents() force reading the file from server instead of cache
body: <p>I am trying to read my constants from a JSON file using</p>
  
  <pre><code>$const = file_get_contents('/myfolder/const.json');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Problem is this will always read the file from cache and not from my local XAMPP server. During development phase, this file is dynamic due to edits and I end up clearing the browser cache everytime there's a change in the file. How can I force to read from the server always (latency in doing this during development phase is fine. I will switch to normal post deployment - how?)? Any help is appreciated.</p>