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Posted by howa on 09/10/07 14:23
On 9 10 , 10 20 , ZeldorBlat <zeldorb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 10, 10:07 am, howa <howac...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Target: To fetch a file using PHP and send to user
>
> > Method 1:
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> > echo file_get_contents( $file_path );
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> > Method 2:
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> > readfile( $file_path );
>
> > Which one is better?
>
> In practice it probably doesn't make much of a difference. In this
> case, however, I'd use readfile since the function was intended to do
> exactly what it is that you're trying to do.
from the doc it said:
file_get_contents() is the preferred way to read the contents of a
file into a string
also, readfile() also need to read the entrie file into memory before
send to buffer, so I am just wondering which is better.
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