PHP - Fread

Hi!

I run a site the requires users to access largeish files, for download as well for streaming to the browser.

It's fairly active, so assuming the worst, how bad is getting php to read the files that would be stored outside of the webroot and then getting it to echo it to a page dynamically for the browser to then read?

Currently, I just have the files stored accessible to the web, but a htaccess protects them via requiring a cookie  but also requires the referrer to be my site. Now I'm not totally stupid and realise those are both easily spoofed, so I'm looking for a better solution.
How do the file hosting sites do it? Using a token system has to involve PHP or some other server side scripting, but then getting the server to read the file with fread() or some similar equivalent would be resource heavy, no? Is that the best way to do it?

Hello.

I need help adding a text file content by one and then saving.

My current code is
$myFile = "serving";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w+') or die("can't open file");
$conv = fread($fh, 4);
$stringData = $conv++;
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

I was told this would work, but of course, it doesn't.  It always returns 1.

I also tried casting it as an int by using
$stringData = (int) $conv++;

I want to load and display the content of a text file (actually it is a cache file). I tested both method using a long for loop as

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for ($i=0; $i < 10000; $i++) {
$handle = fopen("test.txt", "r");
$text = fread($handle, filesize("test.txt"));
fclose($handle);
echo $text;
}and
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for ($i=0; $i < 10000; $i++) {
$text = file_get_contents("test.txt");
echo $text;
}
but the results were similar, though with a large distribution of the comparative data. The speed of a method was 0.5 to 2.0 faster than the other one (in various runs). Which method do you recommend? Could you please quote the pros and cons of each method?

Hi

i am trying to read a page that i open but i keep getting errors and dont know why any ideas.

The code im using is:
foreach($url_extq_data as $a)
{
$var .=$a;
}
// now replace all the tags in the substring and out put the data
$from = array("{our_track}", "{name}", "{surname}", "{email}", "{title}", "{gender}", "{dobday}", "{dobmonth}", "{dobyear}", "{address}", "{address2}", "{town}", "{county}", "{postcode}", "{tel}", "{mobile}", "{timestampu}", "{timestampr}", "{username}", "{password}", "{company}", "{siteurl}", "{fax}", "{tracking}");
$to = array("$our_id", "$name", "$surname", "$email", "$title", "$gender", "$dobday", "$dobmonth", "$dobyear", "$address", "$address2", "$town", "$county", "$postcode", "$tel", "$mobile", "$timestampu", "$timestampr", "$username", "$password", "$company", "$siteurl", "$fax", "$trackit");
$final_url = str_replace($from, $to, $var);
// open url and wait for response
$handle = fopen('$final_url', "r");
echo $final_url;
##$contents2 = stream_get_contents($handle);
$contents2 = '';
$contents2 .= fread($handle, 100);
$contents2 = trim($contents2);


This is what i get back:

<br /> <b>Warning</b>: fopen($final_url) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/home/s/e/searlco/web/public_html/ms_creg.php</b> on line <b>232</b><br /> http://www.cleanleads.co.uk/lead.aspx?campid=30&suppid=284&HSID=1121&HOID=52&FirstName=Dafydd&LastName=Thomas&AddressLine1=31 Cottage Street&Postcode=SS131HR&Gender=M&DateOfBirth=13/10/1980&emailaddress=dait@tedfsdfsdit.com&title=Mr&SupplierSourceCode=11866<br /> <b>Warning</b>: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in <b>/home/s/e/searlco/web/public_html/ms_creg.php</b> on line <b>236</b><br /> ER

Any help anyone???? im lost