Significance of the @ sign in PHP call
<p>I'm working through some PHP code and cannot figure out what the significance of the @ sign is in this code:</p>

<pre><code>    $data = @fread($_socket, 8192);
</code></pre>

<p>I wasn't able to find many other examples on php.net either that explain what @ does, instead it is just used.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>
