Thanks in large part to some of the recent discussions on this list,
I've finally implemented some stuff that allows me to select a bunch of
files and tar them up. This works great for smaller archives.
If the resulting archive is very large, the download begins normally,
but halts at 40-41MB. After a while, Mozilla comes back telling me that
the file could not be saved because the source file could not be read.
(For the record, yes, I have plenty of room on the partition to which
I'm downloading.)
The only settings I could find in php.ini that *might* apply are
max_execution_time = 30 and memory_limit = 8M.
Any ideas on how to make this work for archives of arbitrary size?
Here's the code snippet for the tar stuff (yes, I know my variable names
are pretty atrocious) ...
function set_tar_headers () {
header("Content-Type: application/x-tar");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=foo.tar");
}
function create_file_list ($foo) {
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($foo)) {
$a.=" $val";
}
$a = str_replace ($mp3_dir, "", $a);
return $a;
}
....
//$foo is an array of filenames
if ($action == "tar") {
set_tar_headers();
$a = create_file_list ($foo);
chdir ($mp3_dir);
passthru ("tar -cf - $a");
}
This is all part of a larger script that allows me to search my music
collection, select the songs/playlists/directories I want to listen to,
and create a playlist of URLs to my server, so that I can play my own
music from any machine that has a decent connection. Tarring and
zipping selections just seemed like a nice add-on to that functionality.
Thank you very much in advance for any insight!
-- monique
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