fgets with fopen

[s0me0ne]

Should I use fgets with fopen? I'm trying to make a fast but highly efficient file opening flat file based system. But I want to make sure it can handle huge files and not bog down. I've read file() is memory intensive so I'm using fopen. But I've read you should use fgets with it to grab stuff in chunks?

Any opinions on this?

[laserlight]

I'm trying to make a fast but highly efficient file opening flat file based system.

Before you do that, have you considered using SQLite? It is a relational database engine that has been described by its author as a replacement for fopen().

Should I use fgets with fopen? But I've read you should use fgets with it to grab stuff in chunks?

Yes, unless you want (and can afford) to read it all with [man]file_get_contents/man.