64K Truncation problem...

[cpaddison]

I have FreeBSD and Apache 1.3.27 running PHP 4.3.0.

Does anyone know why my script outputs are getting trucated at 64K. In other words why would the script below only print 64,000 letter a's instead of 66,000?

<?php
$foo = '';

for ($i = 0; $i < 66000; $i++)
{
$foo .= 'a';
}

echo $foo;
?>

Any help would be really appreciated because I've been looking for an answer for this for quite a while.

Thank you.

[MarkR]

This should not happen and indicates a problem. You are, however, running a rather elderly version of PHP (and Apache) which may have known bugs which will not be fixed.

I recommend that you upgrade to the latest stable version of each and try again- if the problem persists (and you can reproduce it reliably), it may be worthwhile to report it to the developers as necessary.

Mark