wez Sun Jun 1 19:11:52 2003 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions fread.xml
Log:
Fix copy-n-paste error and explain why do {} while(true) is better than
while(!feof()) {} in this example.
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml:1.8
phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml:1.9
--- phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml:1.8 Fri May 30 20:15:18
2003
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml Sun Jun 1 19:11:51 2003
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
<!-- splitted from ./en/functions/filesystem.xml, last change in rev 1.25 -->
<refentry id="function.fread">
<refnamediv>
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
$handle = fopen ("http://www.php.net/";, "rb");
$contents = "";
do {
- $data = fread ($handle, filesize ($filename));
+ $data = fread($handle, 8192);
if (strlen($data) == 0) {
break;
}
@@ -93,9 +93,13 @@
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
</para>
-
-
-
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ The example above has better performance than the traditional approach
+ using while(!<function>feof</function>), as we are saving the overhead
+ of a function call per iteration.
+ </para>
+ </note>
<simpara>
See also <function>fwrite</function>, <function>fopen</function>,
<function>fsockopen</function>, <function>popen</function>,
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