Posted by Steve on 09/10/07 18:39

"Good Man" <heyho@letsgo.com> wrote in message
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> Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> wrote in
> news:e8vae355c9ihgr6tj87eg6qe36hlij7bb8@4ax.com:
>
>> .oO(Good Man)
>>
>>>try streaming a 12MB file, regardless of your memory settings, to
>>>understand my point. your download will end early and you will not
>>>get the complete file.
>>
>> I did a test with a 179MB(!) file on my local server - no problems
>> with a plain readfile(). Memory limit is set to 32MB, PHP 5.2.3.
>> Script execution and file delivery took about 70s, memory usage was
>> just 1.7MB.
>>
>>>the function is posted on the manual page for a reason, i personally
>>>have found it vital, use at your discretion.
>>
>> Maybe a bug in an older version? The UCN is from 2005.
>
> Interesting, thanks... as I said, it's not like I used that function right
> away, I had to resort to it because my files were getting cut off.
>
> I'll skip it on new coding projects and use plain ol' readfile()

or plain ol' file_get_contents()

;^)

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