[SOLVED] fread only reading 78 characters

[CloudedVision]

I'll give you a quick rundown:

• Script downloads page from external server using CURL
• CURL writes it to temp.xml
• Use fopen to open temp.xml
• Use fread to read temp.xml

Any reason why this is happening? I've checked temp.xml, and it has all the content in there. But fread only returns the first 78 characters. Why? It's worked fine in some other scripts. Here's a snippet of code:

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function proxy($url) {
        $ch = curl_init($url); //CURL URL to temporary file
        $fp = @fopen("temp.xml", "w");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); //I have no idea what this does
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
        curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        fclose($fp);
        $filename = "temp.xml";
        $fp = fopen($filename, "r"); //Read temporary file
        $content = fread($fp, filesize($filename));
        fclose($fp);
        return $content;
    } 

[c010depunkk]

How about using file_get_contents().... Much simpler and I've never had problems with this function.

[CloudedVision]

Originally Posted by c010depunkk

How about using file_get_contents().... Much simpler and I've never had problems with this function.

I've already solved this problem, turns out it was not necessary to have cURL write to a temporary file, it could output the contents straight to a variable.

But thanks anyways, that tip will come in handy.