thanks rasmus,
i have tried read file but it gave me the same issues as fpassthru.. both cap
on the memory_limit directive withint the php.ini file
any other suggestions maybe?
cheers
christian
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> readfile()
>
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, christian haines wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> >
> > i have successfully created a download script to force a user to
> > download, however attempting to download large files causes an error
> > saying that the file cannot be found.
> >
> > my code >
> > header("Cache-control: private");
> > header("Content-Type: application/force-download; name=\"$file\"");
> > header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$file \"");
> > header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
> > header("Content-Length: $content_length");
> > $fp = fopen($file_fullpath,"r");
> > fpassthru($fp);
> > fclose($fp);
> > < my code
> >
> > this is a memory issue in the php.ini i.e. memory_limit = 8M then the
> > largest file i can download is 8M
> >
> > is there anyway to "force" a download without having to use the system
> > hungry fpassthru function?
> >
> > this is driving me nuts so any help would be greatly appreciated
> >
> > cheers
> > christian
> >
> > ps i read the following at php.net fpassthru man page but could not make
> > sense of it (it appears to be some kind of solution) >
> >
> > "fpassthru() works best for small files. In download manager scripts,
> > it's best to determine the URL of the file to download (you may generate
> > it locally in your session data if you need so), and then use HTTP
> > __temporary__ redirects (302 status code, with a "Location:" header
> > specifying the effective download URL).
> > This saves your web server from maintaining PHP scripts running for long
> > times during the file downloadn and instead the download will be managed
> > directly by the web server without scripting support (consequence: less
> > memory resources used by parallel downloads)..."
> >
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