md5 on static file is changing

[theEclipse]

Hello,

I am working on a script that takes the md5 of files in a directory and stores them in a database with the filename. It is working fine, but on one particular file the md5 sum keeps changing. Every time I refresh the page in fact.

Does anybody know why this would happen?

Robert Carpenter
"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness." - C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)

robert (at) robertcarpenter (dot) net

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[nego78]

This is strange
Do you use md5_file() function?
On what system you use it?
What is your PHP version?


gry online

 

[theEclipse]

ooh....I have not been using the md5_file function. I have been reading the file into a string and then md5ing the string with md5(). I bet md5_file() is faster.

I am running it on my test machine, winxp pro (ntfs) -> apache 2 -> php 5 .

something that is curious is that the function does return the same md5 for other files....only on this one specific does it morph.

Robert Carpenter
"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness." - C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)

robert (at) robertcarpenter (dot) net

http://www.robertcarpenter.net

 

[nego78]

what kind of file is it ?

gry online

 

[theEclipse]

itsa binary....but so are some of the other ones...



Robert Carpenter
"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness." - C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)

robert (at) robertcarpenter (dot) net

http://www.robertcarpenter.net