downloading blobs from mysql

[Barry]

Hi

I am having trouble downloading documents saved in a blob.

I get the correct data from the database.
The original size saved in the table then equals the strlen of
the file content retrieved from the db, so I'm pretty confident
that I do get all of the data.

I set the following headers:

header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Content-type: $type");
header("Content-length: $size");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");

and then I do a:

echo($content);

This all works fine, for small files. When I have larger file (50KB +),
the downloads stop short, resulting in incomplete downloads.
Why could this be happening.
Please help I'm getting very frustrated.

Thanks
Barry

[Jasen Betts]

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On 2006-02-06, Barry <[e-mail]> wrote:

Hi

I am having trouble downloading documents saved in a blob.

I get the correct data from the database.
The original size saved in the table then equals the strlen of
the file content retrieved from the db, so I'm pretty confident
that I do get all of the data.

I set the following headers:

header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Content-type: $type");
header("Content-length: $size");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");

and then I do a:

echo($content);
hopefully a blank line first.
This all works fine, for small files. When I have larger file (50KB +),
the downloads stop short, resulting in incomplete downloads.
does it do this for all browsers?
Why could this be happening.
Please help I'm getting very frustrated.

I've seen it cause by the socket being closed too soon, but that wasn't with
PHP.
Bye.
Jasen

[Jasen Betts]

On 2006-02-06, Jasen Betts <ja***@free.net.nz> wrote:

echo($content);

hopefully a blank line first.

what wa I thinking? PHP takes care of that detail.

Bye.
Jasen

[Barry]

Thnks for the help.
Found the problem.
I had to add 'b' to fopen('filename', 'rb');
when inserting the doc.

Barry

Jasen Betts wrote:

On 2006-02-06, Jasen Betts <ja***@free.net.nz> wrote:

echo($content);

hopefully a blank line first.

what wa I thinking? PHP takes care of that detail.

Bye.
Jasen

[Jim Michaels]

"Barry" <[e-mail]> wrote in message news:ds**********@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net...

Thnks for the help.
Found the problem.
I had to add 'b' to fopen('filename', 'rb');
when inserting the doc.

Barry
Oh. Your subject line said *downloading from* MySQL. not INSERTing into
MySQL.
just out of curiosity, if there is an internal limit on the size of a
string, say 64K, and I can't echo the content all at once, How would I
handle outputting a BLOB'd large file such as a PDF?
or is it that I just can't do it with PHP? do I use pack() somehow?


Jasen Betts wrote:

On 2006-02-06, Jasen Betts <ja***@free.net.nz> wrote:

echo($content);

hopefully a blank line first.

what wa I thinking? PHP takes care of that detail.

Bye.
Jasen

[Jasen Betts]

On 2006-02-14, Jim Michaels <jm******@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote:

"Barry" <[e-mail]> wrote in message news:ds**********@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net...

Thnks for the help.
Found the problem.
I had to add 'b' to fopen('filename', 'rb');
when inserting the doc.

Barry

Oh. Your subject line said *downloading from* MySQL. not INSERTing into
MySQL.
just out of curiosity, if there is an internal limit on the size of a
string, say 64K, and I can't echo the content all at once, How would I
handle outputting a BLOB'd large file such as a PDF?
or is it that I just can't do it with PHP? do I use pack() somehow?

I haven't tested it with MySQL, but PostgreSQL can handle atleast a few Megs
in a text field. if you want that sort of detail that's what the mmanual is
for. Download it if you find looking stuff up on-line inconvenient.

Bye.
Jasen