Loading a file

[jplock]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me which of these methods for loading data from a text file is more efficient?

$text = implode("", file("$filename"));

$text = fread(fopen($filename, "r"), filesize($filename));

Just curious, thanks.

-Justin Plock
http://plock.net

[superslacker]

My guess is the second implementation is faster since the first has to read the file into an array before appending it to the final string. But PHP might optimize the first one to make it just as fast. It's hard to tell until someone runs some tests on them. Wonder which method is the official PHP way of reading a file?

[Anon]

Yea, that is why I asked the question. 🙂

I'm curious to which is better...after browsing the CVS on www.php.net...they make use of the implode and file() way of doing it. In my own code, I was originally using the fread() way, until I saw there and I changed it.