Re: php fgets()

On Wed, 15 May 2002, arnaud gonzales wrote: > I'm newbie in php and i would like to clearly understand how can i use: > LENGTH in string fgets ( int fp [, int length]) > > "Returns a string of up to length - 1 bytes read from the file pointed to by > fp. Reading ends when length - 1 bytes have been read, on a newline (which > is included in the return value), or on EOF (whichever comes first). If no > length is specified, the length defaults to 1k, or 1024 bytes." > > -Can i have an example of the differents way for reading file with fgets > according to the differentes values of "length "? > -why '4096' is used as length for reading a file line by line ? > > $fd = fopen ("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r"); > while (!feof ($fd)) { > $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096); > echo $buffer; > } > fclose ($fd); > > Is this any max for one line?? The idea is to avoid runaway reads. This way if you get pointed to a file that's a link to /dev/random, you won't blow through all your memory and explode. miguel