[SOLVED] can anyone explain this fopen

[shadiadiph]

can any one explain why the first one works and the second one doesn't??

 

  // Create email account
  $f = fopen ("http://$cpuser:$cppass@$cpdomain:2082/frontend/$cpskin/mail/doaddpop.html?email=$euser&domain=$cpdomain&password=$epass&quota=$equota", "r");

  // Check result
  while (!feof ($f)) {
    $line = fgets ($f, 1024);
    if (ereg ("already exists", $line, $out)) {
      $msg = "<h2>Email account {$euser}@{$edomain} already exists.</h2>";
      break;
    }
  }
  @fclose($f);

 

  // Create email account
  $f = fopen ("http://$cpuser:$cppass@$cpdomain:2082/frontend/$cpskin/mail/doaddpop.html?email=$euser&domain=$cpdomain&password=$epass&quota=$equota", "r");

  @fclose($f);

[trq]

No.

[shadiadiph]

mm i don't get it either i only took out the check while loop as i don't need it to check doesn't look like it does anything except return an error but works if i change the while loop to just

 

  // check result
  while (!feof ($f)) {
    $line = fgets ($f, 1024);
}

[trq]

I actually meant, no, we can't explain it because you haven't given us enough details to do so.

[shadiadiph]

mm don't know what you want me to explain this is to add an email user to the cpanel on my domain was just wondering why the first one worked and why the second one didn't

 

why does fopen require

 

  // check result
  while (!feof ($f)) {
    $line = fgets ($f, 1024);
}

 

at minimum to work didn;t seem like the above does anything?

[trq]

The looped one read in 1024 bytes at a time until it gets to the end of the file.

[shadiadiph]

thank you for the explanation