Allowed memory size exhausted

I have a large amount of data (1,948,280 bytes) that I tried to write out to a file using if ($fp = fopen($file,"w")): fwrite($fp,$contents,strlen($contents)); fclose($fp); endif; and got "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1948281 bytes)" on the 2nd line. So, I tried to write out smaller portions with: if ($fp = fopen($file,"w")): $size = 4096; while (strlen($contents)){ $temp = substr($contents,0,$size); fwrite($fp,$temp,$size); $contents = substr($contents,$size+1); } fclose($fp); endif; but get a similar error on the line "$contents = substr($contents,$size+1);" which is what I'm using to try to avoid running out of memory. It appears that I can't replace the variable with a smaller version of itself. So, if I can't write out the whole thing and can't section it either, what can I do? Jeff --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now