The best method to send a large file to client?

Arjen wrote:

> howachen@gmail.com schreef:
>> I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size
>>
>> currently, i use the method:
>>
>> echo file_get_contents( $file_path );
>>
>>
>> are there any better method?
>>
>> thanks.
>
> Yup .. stream the file.
>
> file($file_path);

You'll run out of memory very quickly using file(...) or
file_get_contents(...) on big files.

C.

NC 寫道：

> On Oct 5, 12:17 am, howac...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size
> >
> > currently, i use the method:
> >
> > echo file_get_contents( $file_path );
> >
> > are there any better method?
>
> Yes. Use readfile():
>
> http://www.php.net/readfile
>
> Cheers,
> NC

thanks all...

seems readfile() is the best method

NC wrote:
> On Oct 5, 12:17 am, howac...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size
> >
> > currently, i use the method:
> >
> > echo file_get_contents( $file_path );
> >
> > are there any better method?
>
> Yes. Use readfile():
>
> http://www.php.net/readfile

When I read the responses in this thread, I was wondering what
happened to c.l.php (obvious shortage of PHP saints). Fortunately,
still Nikolai Chuvakhin is hacking PHP...:-)

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