fgets doesn't read from popen?

Hi everyone I'm trying to read from a popen ($file, r) and fgets in PHP. The output is like this in perl: print join ("\t", $_, $b->{one}, $b->{two}, $b->{three}, $b->{four}), "\n"; I've also added another column to the beginning of it, so the output would be: name one two three four name etc ect etc etc I used popen to open this file and then use fgets to read it. The fgets can only read the 'name' part but cannot read the rest? Does anyone one know why this is happening? Appreciate your help Chhai Thach