Bug #3187: CPU overload with fopen() and fgets()

From: alister@xcel.net.au Operating system: NT 4.0 SP 5 on intel PHP version: 3.0.14 PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function Bug description: CPU overload with fopen() and fgets() I'm using latest release PHP4 beta 3 (couldn't pick that as a selection in the PHP Version pull-down - sorry). Also latest win32 Apache. When I run the code below on an external URL (in this case http://directory.netscape.com/) PHP gets as far as entering the while loop but appears to go out of control on the fgets(). I am getting variable CPU usage between 95 and 100%... it's maxing out my processor! I don't know how long it would go for... I eventually rebooted (manuy times!) because I couldn't kill the PHP.exe process. NOTE: The script max timeout variable doesn't work outside UNIX and this is something to overcome, please! I tried a work around using readfile() and explode() to get the array back, but readfile() sends to standard output and I don't know how to suppress this. I'm notifying of this bug (I'm not alone... there's a note on one of the online manual pages about the exact same error in PHP v3.something) but also asking for any workarounds for the time being. Thanks, ALister. ------------------------------------------------- function grabFile ($url, $ignoreme) { $fp = fopen ($url, "r"); $i = 0; echo " "; flush (); while (!feof($fp)) { $file[$i] .= fgets ($fp,1024); $i++; //echo $i." <br>"; flush (); } echo " "; flush (); return $file; }