Re: [PHP] Getting a binary file from URL

[Christian Reiniger]

On Sunday 22 April 2001 21:25, Sigitas Paulavicius wrote:
 Solution #1

 $contents = fread ($pointer, 1);



 Solution #2

 $contents=;
 while ($partial = fread ($pointer, 8192)) {
 $contents.=$partial;
 };

But test this before you rely on it.  I once did this with (IIRC) PHP 
4.0.1 and it read up to several hundred junk bytes after encountering EOF.

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RE: [PHP] Getting a binary file from URL

[Jaime Torres]

Well, it use to happen...

[from function.filesize.html]
int filesize (string filename)
This function will not work on remote files; the file to be examined must be
accessible via the server's filesystem.

Ok, I screwed up. But now that I know what went wrong, how can I override
this? The docs said: "Fread() reads up to length bytes from the file pointer
referenced by fp. Reading stops when length bytes have been read or EOF is
reached, whichever comes first."

How do I use fread to read until EOF? Note: I don't know the file size, it
could be from 1 byte to xxx Mb.

Thanks,
Jaime

-Mensaje original-
De: Jaime Torres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Enviado el: domingo 22 de abril de 2001 12:07
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: [PHP] Getting a binary file from URL


Hi, I'm trying to get a binary file from an URL and then save it to a local
disk.

I'm trying this:

$fd = fopen ($filename, "rb");
$contents = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);

$fp = fopen ($tempfile, "wb");
fwrite ($fp,$contents);
fclose ($fp);

If I use $filename="local_file" the script works great, but if I use
$filename="http://myserver.com/remote_file" the resultant local file is
empty.

How can I do this?

Thanks in advance,
Jaime


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Re: [PHP] Getting a binary file from URL

[Sigitas Paulavicius]

Solution #1

$contents = fread ($pointer, 1);



Solution #2

$contents="";
while ($partial = fread ($pointer, 8192)) {
$contents.=$partial;
};



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