Posted by Jordan Miller on 08/17/05 18:26

Ok, just checking (I am new to the fopen() function). That makes
sense. Awesome, thanks!

Jordan

On Aug 17, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Catalin Trifu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Indeed a fclose($fp) is needed (wrote it as an example :)).
> 1MB is more than enough as a buffer. If you have a 53MB file,
> what will happen then ?
> I have no idea if it's a bug or a feature. Either way I did lose
> some hair over this when I switched from PHP4 to PHP5.
>
> Catalin
>
>
> Jordan Miller wrote:
>
>> Catalin,
>> Wow, that worked great, thanks.
>> I'm curious why you set a static buffer of 1024768... why not just
>> do filesize($file), as shown at http://www.php.net/fread ? Is it
>> better for memory usage to have a potentially smaller buffer?
>> Also, you may want an fclose($fp) after the file has been
>> downloaded.
>> So is this a bug in PHP 5 or are they just purposely limiting the
>> abilities of the "readfile" command?
>> Jordan
>> On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:36 AM, Catalin Trifu wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've had a similar problem. The download always stopped at
>>> exactly 2.000.000 bytes.
>>> You have to work around that with:
>>> $fp = fopen($file, 'r');
>>> if($fp) {
>>> while(!feof($fp)) {
>>> echo fread($fp, 1024768);//see the huge buffer to read into
>>> }
>>> } else {
>>> //whatever error handler
>>> }
>>>
>>> Catalin
>>>
>>>
>>> Jordan Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> I am new to this list and I have searched the archives to no
>>>> avail. I am having a peculiar problem when upgrading to PHP 5:
>>>> My downloads are now limited to the first 1.9 MB of the file
>>>> in question, with the download either terminating at 1.9 MB
>>>> or seemingly continuously stuck in a downloading process at
>>>> 1.9 MB. The code in the PHP script has not changed and all
>>>> parameters that I could find that are relevant to this problem
>>>> are given below:
>>>> the minimal code needed for download:
>>>> // $file_to_read is the complete path of the file to
>>>> download
>>>> header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
>>>> header( "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=
>>>> \"$filename \"");
>>>> $len = filesize($file_to_read);
>>>> header("Content-Length: $len");
>>>> @readfile($file_to_read);
>>>> php.ini file for both php version 4 and 5 contain the
>>>> following settings that may be relevant:
>>>> allow_url_fopen = On
>>>> max_execution_time = 300 ; Maximum execution time of each
>>>> script, in seconds
>>>> max_input_time = 300 ; Maximum amount of time each script
>>>> may spend parsing request data
>>>> memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may
>>>> consume (8MB)
>>>> post_max_size = 200M
>>>> upload_max_filesize = 200M
>>>> Some additional details:
>>>> All files less than 1.9 MB download fine
>>>> It is not a corrupted file, because all files larger than 1.9
>>>> MB fail after 1.9 MB
>>>> The connection is not timing out (download of 1.9 MB takes only
>>>> ~15 sec)
>>>> Mac OS X 10.3.9 with Marc Liyanage's PHP 5.0.4
>>>> Fails for both Safari and Firefox
>>>> Fails regardless of "inline" or "attachment"
>>>> Fails regardless of "pdf" or "ppt" content-type
>>>> This PHP code ALWAYS works for Marc Liyanage's PHP 4.3.4 with
>>>> the same settings, above
>>>> What am I doing wrong??? Any other parameter in php.ini I
>>>> should have set? Any suggestions are much appreciated.
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Jordan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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