note 15515 added to function.fgets

The given example for reading a file is incorrect. It will introduce an additional run through the loop, since once the last byte has been read of a text file (terminating say in \n), the feof does not yet indicate end of file - you have to read PAST it. The correct code structure looks more like this: $fd = fopen ("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r"); $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096); while (!feof ($fd)) { echo $buffer; $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096); } fclose ($fd); http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgets.php