note 37505 added to function.fopen

I had the same problem mentioned by Tim Fountain below: trying to open a file larger than 2 GB to read it throws the error "Value too large for defined data type" . (This error is explain in the online manual under filesize(), but no workaround for OPENING files is given.) After lots of Googling (mainly to unanswered forum questions) I found a workaround on a Perl forum: open a pipe to "cat filename": $fh = popen("cat $filename", "r"); Hope this saves someone some of the grief I've just gone through! Bill ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+37505 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+37505&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+37505&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php