note 48683 deleted from function.readfile by joey

Note Submitter: Rob Funk ---- When using readfile() with very large files, it's possible to run into problems due to the memory_limit setting; apparently readfile() pulls the whole file into memory at once. One solution is to make sure memory_limit is larger than the largest file you'll use with readfile(). A better solution is to write a chunking readfile. Here's a simple one that doesn't exactly conform to the API, but is close enough for most purposes: <?php function readfile_chunked ($filename) { $chunksize = 1*(1024*1024); // how many bytes per chunk $buffer = ''; $handle = fopen($filename, 'rb'); if ($handle === false) { return false; } while (!feof($handle)) { $buffer = fread($handle, $chunksize); print $buffer; } return fclose($handle); } ?>