upload big file

[wakun]

Hi there,
I am using a POST method to upload a big file (20M), I have already
set the max-upload-file = 30M in php.ini and have the hidden
MAX_FILE_SIZE=30M in multipart form. However, it still refuse to upload
such file. For some reason, I am not going to use ftp instead. Any
idea?

Thanks in advance.

[wakun]

wa***@wakun.com wrote:

Hi there,
I am using a POST method to upload a big file (20M), I have already
set the max-upload-file = 30M in php.ini and have the hidden
MAX_FILE_SIZE=30M in multipart form. However, it still refuse to upload
such file. For some reason, I am not going to use ftp instead. Any
idea?

Thanks in advance.

Now, I figure out the problem by setting the post_max_size=40M in
php.ini but I get another problem about offering a big file to
download. I have the download script as follow

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

$t = "application/pdf";
header("Content-Type: $t");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=$filename");
header("Pragma: private"); // fix for IE

echo $contents;

I found it takes almost one minute to download the file bigger than
20M?

[ZeldorBlat]

wa***@wakun.com wrote:

wa***@wakun.com wrote:

Hi there,
I am using a POST method to upload a big file (20M), I have already
set the max-upload-file = 30M in php.ini and have the hidden
MAX_FILE_SIZE=30M in multipart form. However, it still refuse to upload
such file. For some reason, I am not going to use ftp instead. Any
idea?

Thanks in advance.

Now, I figure out the problem by setting the post_max_size=40M in
php.ini but I get another problem about offering a big file to
download. I have the download script as follow

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

$t = "application/pdf";
header("Content-Type: $t");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=$filename");
header("Pragma: private"); // fix for IE

echo $contents;

I found it takes almost one minute to download the file bigger than
20M?

You might want to try sending the file in "chunks". Remember that
$contents now contains at least 20MB of data in memory (and perhaps
elsewhere). See if something like this works better:

$fd = fopen($absfile, "rb");
while (!feof($fd))
echo fread($fd, 8192);

[Chung Leong]

wa***@wakun.com wrote:

Now, I figure out the problem by setting the post_max_size=40M in
php.ini but I get another problem about offering a big file to
download. I have the download script as follow

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

$t = "application/pdf";
header("Content-Type: $t");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=$filename");
header("Pragma: private"); // fix for IE

echo $contents;

I found it takes almost one minute to download the file bigger than
20M?

It's not a good idea to serve large PDF files through PHP. The Acrobat
Reader uses partial retrieval to allow a user to quickly jump to
different parts of a document. Unless you implement partial retrieval
yourself, or use the PEAR HTTP class, this functionality is disabled
and the user would have to wait for the whole document to finish
downloading.

[Mladen Gogala]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:00:56 -0800, Chung Leong wrote:

the user would have to wait for the whole document to finish
downloading.

The user is always right and has to be punished for that.

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