// PHP4b3 problem! 
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fread() doesn't return the correct number of bytes in Win32 environment.

For some reason it just reads the first 33 bytes (in my example, depends on the file to be read).


$sourcefile = "./aniclick.gif";
$fd = fopen($sourcefile, "r");
$contents = fread($fd, filesize($sourcefile));
$encoded =  chunk_split(base64_encode($contents));
fclose($fd);
	
echo "FileSize: ". filesize($sourcefile)."<BR> 
Read: ".strlen($contents). "<BR> 
Encoded: ".strlen($encoded). "<BR> 
Ratio: ". number_format((strlen($encoded) / strlen($contents)), 2). "<BR>"; 


The code above give the following result:

FileSize: 19910 
Read: 33 
Encoded: 46 
Ratio: 1.39 

/Bjarne