* Thus wrote CPT John W. Holmes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> From: "frederik feys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I thought str_replace caused slow down of my mailing script, but it
> > seems to be this line of code:
> >
> > $fd =
> > implode("",file("http://www.domain.org/store/min/Mailing_template.html";)
> > );
> >
> > I first put the mailing template in $fd (only once) and then replace
> > (str_replace) elements of it to individualize HTML emails.
> > Btw i'm using php version 4.0.6.
> >
> > Are there better(faster) ways to read the contents of a file?
>
> file_get_contents() ?
unfortantly this is only (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0).
imploading a file all the time from file simply doesn't make sense
to me, i would fread() the file directly into a string instead.
>
> The slow down is probably because you're going through HTTP to read the
> file. Is there a reason for that? Any way you can cache the file locally so
> it's not read through HTTP all of the time?
Yep, reading through http is the slowdown.
Curt
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