* Thus wrote Mag:
> I did look at the fopen option...but it just seemed a
> little longer and more complicated to do that plus
> according to this benchmark
> (http://force-elite.com/~chip/projects/php/benchmarks/file-vs-fgets/)
> using file_get_contents is upto 6 times faster (?) in
> some cases..
You certaintly dont want to do a file() on a 20MB file. There are
times when you'll want to use fopen vs file/file_get_contents.
file_get_contents will be much faster for a couple of reasons. for
one, getting the same results as file_get_contents you have to do
something like:
$string = implode("\n", file($file));
Another reson file_get_contents() will be faster is because it uses
(when available on the OS) a special memory allocation that is much
more efficiant, than other file reading tools.
Curt
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