file() and fopen() not loading entire file

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I'm building a GUI for my remote winamp script (which uses Victor Pavlov's Snowcrash plugin)

The problem I'm running into is that I can't seem to load the entire playlist (over 2600 titles) into an array. I usually get a mere 60-70 titles loaded then it just stops. It usually stops reading half-way through a title name too, as you can see here

It's supposed to load this page into an array.

The only thing I could think of was that maybe arrays are only allowed to contain a certain number of characters? I did a character count on 5 different playlists, and the range of characters was pretty tight. Between 2560 and 2580 characters are loaded into the array before it quits reading the page.

PHP Code:

<?
    $playlist = file("http://67.189.104.92:82/playlist?request=playlist");

    for ($i = 1; $i < count($playlist); $i++) {
        $songInfo = explode("|!|", $playlist[$i]);
        $title = $songInfo[1];
        $index = $songInfo[2];
        echo "<a class='song' href='http://67.189.104.92:82/fsnowCrashSong?request=playlist&play=$index&Back=1&calloutput=1'style='margin-left: 10px;'>$title</a><br />";
    }
?>

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Alright, well I've got it listing all 2646 song titles properly using curl() to write the contents of http://67.189.104.92:82/playlist?request=playlist to a local file, then loading the contents from the local file into an array with file(). Does anyone know why I can't use file() to load the entire content of my playlist from a remote file?

[sde]

i'm not sure why that happened. it could be a size issue with the file() function.

fopen() is mentioned in the subject, but i didn't see much in the description. i would have used a fopen() / fread() logic if i was having trouble with file() and large files.

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I tried both file, and fopen and had the exact same results with both. But they both work correctly and load the entire file when opening the file locally. When trying to access the file from my computer however, it got truncated