line reading???

[gizzmo]

Hello everyone

could some one explain

why is it when trying to read line from a file, why do people use the 4096 number what exactly is that number and what happen when that number is used.

Thanks

gizzmo!

[stolzyboy]

that's the amount(in bytes) that will be read: following is straight from the manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php

string fread ( resource handle, int length)

fread() reads up to length bytes from the file pointer referenced by handle. Reading stops when length bytes have been read or EOF (end of file) reached, whichever comes first.