Posted by Stephen Kay on 03/30/06 02:10

I'm wondering if there is any advantage one way or the other to these two
methods of reading an html file:

1. using fopen and friends:

$myFile = "http://www.example.com/page.html";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
$content1 = fread($fh, filesize($myFile));
fclose($fh);


2. using imploed, and file:

$content1 = implode('', file("http://www.example.com/page.html"));


They both seem to work equally well, but the number 1. seems to be more
robust with different file types...


Note: I can't use file_get_contents() because my ISP's PHP version is 4.1 or
so.


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Stephen Kay
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