note 50637 added to function.fread

To make the effects of the latest PHP version changes of the fread function even more explicit: the new size limitation of fread -regardless of the filesize one specifies, in the example below 1024 * 1024- means that if one was simply reading the contents of a text file from a dynamic URL like so: <? $dp = "http://www.whatever.com/filename.php"; $buffer = fopen($dp, 'r'); if (!$buffer) { echo("<P>Error: unable to load URL file into $buffer. Process aborted.</P>"); exit(); } $sp = fread($buffer, 1024*1024); fclose($buffer); highlight_string($sp); ?> one should from now on use the file_get_contents function, as shown below, to avoid one's text being truncated forcibly. <? $dp = "http://www.whatever.com/filename.php"; if (!$dp) { echo("<P>Error: unable to load URL file into $dp. Process aborted.</P>"); exit(); } $sp = file_get_contents($dp); highlight_string($sp); ?> I thought it couldn't hurt to clarify this detail in order to save time for anyone else who is in the same situation as I was tonight when my ISP abruptly upgraded to the latest version of PHP... :( Thank you to every previous contributor to this topic. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+50637 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50637&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50637&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50637&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50637&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50637&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+50637&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php