pollita Wed Mar 24 15:39:40 2004 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions fread.xml
Log:
Fix example 3. Remove erroneous note.
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml?r1=1.15&r2=1.16&ty=u
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml:1.15
phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml:1.16
--- phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml:1.15 Mon Dec 15 11:49:45
2003
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/filesystem/functions/fread.xml Wed Mar 24 15:39:40 2004
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.15 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.16 $ -->
<!-- splitted from ./en/functions/filesystem.xml, last change in rev 1.25 -->
<refentry id="function.fread">
<refnamediv>
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
<para>
When reading from network streams or pipes, such as those returned when
reading <link linkend="features.remote-files">remote files</link> or from
- <function>popen</function> and <function>proc_open</function>, reading
+ <function>popen</function> and <function>fsockopen</function>, reading
will stop after a packet is available. This means that you should
collect the data together in chunks as shown in the example below.
</para>
@@ -73,14 +73,10 @@
<![CDATA[
<?php
$handle = fopen("http://www.example.com/";, "rb");
-$contents = "";
-do {
- $data = fread($handle, 8192);
- if (strlen($data) == 0) {
- break;
- }
- $contents .= $data;
-} while (true);
+$contents = '';
+while (!feof($handle)) {
+ $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
+}
fclose($handle);
?>
]]>
@@ -89,13 +85,6 @@
</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>
- <note>
- <para>
If you just want to get the contents of a file into a string, use
<function>file_get_contents</function> as it has much better performance
than the code above.
