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Posted by d on 10/04/84 11:38
"Good Man" <heyho@letsgo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9757DBEB57C92sonicyouth@216.196.97.131...
> Good Man <heyho@letsgo.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9757D68E58DABsonicyouth@216.196.97.131:
>
>
>> My problem is that my downloads are always "completing" too soon, and
>> always around 1.6 -> 1.9 MB.
>
> hey, guess who JUST read the readfile(); page in the manual? ;)
>
> Down in the comments section are the following posts... I've posted them
> here in case anyone is trying to solve this problem in the future and
> stumbled across this thread (hello future! do you have flying cars?)
Nicely done ;)
>
> COMMENTS:
> ( http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php )
>
> flobee at gmail dot com
> 06-May-2005 02:17
> regarding php5:
> i found out that there is already a disscussion @php-dev about readfile
> () and fpassthru() where only exactly 2 MB will be delivered. so you may
> use this on php5 to get lager files
>
> ... which eventually morphed via 'chrisputnam at gmai<snip>' into the
> following function, which i have used successfully. thanks chris!
>
>
> function readfile_chunked($filename,$retbytes=true) {
> $chunksize = 1*(1024*1024); // how many bytes per chunk
> $buffer = '';
> $cnt =0;
> // $handle = fopen($filename, 'rb');
> $handle = fopen($filename, 'rb');
> if ($handle === false) {
> return false;
> }
> while (!feof($handle)) {
> $buffer = fread($handle, $chunksize);
> echo $buffer;
> ob_flush();
> flush();
> if ($retbytes) {
> $cnt += strlen($buffer);
> }
> }
> $status = fclose($handle);
> if ($retbytes && $status) {
> return $cnt; // return num. bytes delivered like readfile() does.
> }
> return $status;
>
> }
>
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