The best method to send a large file to client?

[howachen@gmail.com]

I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size

currently, i use the method:

echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path );


are there any better method?

thanks.

[.:[ ikciu ]:.]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?

Hmm Uzytkownik <howachen@gmail .comwrote:

are there any better method?

ofc, you can gzip this file first you will send few kB not mB

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[.:[ ikciu ]:.]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?

Hmm Uzytkownik <howachen@gmail .comwrote:

I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size

what you mean send? send via email, send via browser or what?

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[howachen@gmail.com]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?


..:[ ikciu ]:. 寫道：

Hmm Uzytkownik <howachen@gmail .comwrote:

I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size

>
what you mean send? send via email, send via browser or what?
>
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i mean read the content from the text file, and send to the browser

[howachen@gmail.com]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?


howachen@gmail. com 寫道：

I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size
>
currently, i use the method:
>
echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path );
>
>
are there any better method?
>
thanks.

gzip take time, if many people access the page, my server will be
killed....

what i want to look for is if any method can send the file to apache
for display with getting back the content to the php first, i.e. i want
streaming, no matter the size of the file, even 1GB

echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path ); // no good, as content will be
passed back in the STACK during function call

// i want sth like...streamin g
print_file_to_c lient( $file_path );

[Arjen]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?

howachen@gmail. com schreef:

I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size
>
currently, i use the method:
>
echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path );
>
>
are there any better method?
>
thanks.

Yup .. stream the file.

file($file_path );

foreach($file as $line)
{
echo $line;
ob_flush();
flush();
}

Arjen

[Arkady Renko]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?

howachen@gmail. com wrote:

howachen@gmail. com 寫道：

>I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size
>>
>currently, i use the method:
>>
>echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path );
>>
>>
>are there any better method?
>>
>thanks.

gzip take time, if many people access the page, my server will be
killed....

what i want to look for is if any method can send the file to apache
for display with getting back the content to the php first, i.e. i want
streaming, no matter the size of the file, even 1GB

echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path ); // no good, as content will be
passed back in the STACK during function call

// i want sth like...streamin g
print_file_to_c lient( $file_path );

If you want to stream the file (without compressing it) then why not use
fread to read small "chunks" of the file?

Something like this...

$chunk = (8024);
$buffer = '';
$handle = fopen($filename , 'rb');
if ($handle === false) die();
while (!feof($handle) )
{
$buffer = fread($handle, $chunk);
print $buffer;
flush();
ob_flush();
}
fclose ($handle);



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[.:[ ikciu ]:.]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?

Hmm U¿ytkownik <howachen@gmail .comwrote:

gzip take time, if many people access the page, my server will be
killed....

you right, i thought you send it via mail or allow user to download it, when
you only display it you you can use require function (but you have right
there is no php code or just show it like a data)


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[_q_u_a_m_i_s's]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?

why don't u use readfile()? http://ro2.php.net/readfile
it does exactly what you want, and is much faster than reading the file
and echo'ing it

..:[ ikciu ]:. a scris:

Hmm U¿ytkownik <howachen@gmail .comwrote:

gzip take time, if many people access the page, my server will be
killed....

>
you right, i thought you send it via mail or allow user to download it, when
you only display it you you can use require function (but you have right
there is no php code or just show it like a data)
>
>
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[NC]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?

On Oct 5, 12:17 am, howac...@gmail. com wrote:

>
I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size
>
currently, i use the method:
>
echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path );
>
are there any better method?

Yes. Use readfile():

http://www.php.net/readfile

Cheers,
NC

[Colin McKinnon]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?

Arjen wrote:

howachen@gmail. com schreef:

>I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size
>>
>currently, i use the method:
>>
>echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path );
>>
>>
>are there any better method?
>>
>thanks.

>
Yup .. stream the file.
>
file($file_path );

You'll run out of memory very quickly using file(...) or
file_get_conten ts(...) on big files.

C.

[howachen@gmail.com]

Re: The best method to send a large file to client?


NC 寫道：

On Oct 5, 12:17 am, howac...@gmail. com wrote:

I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size

currently, i use the method:

echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path );

are there any better method?

>
Yes. Use readfile():
>

http://www.php.net/readfile

Cheers,
NC

thanks all...

seems readfile() is the best method

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

|OT| Re: The best method to send a large file to client?

NC wrote:

On Oct 5, 12:17 am, howac...@gmail. com wrote:

I have many text file with 1 to 2MB in size

currently, i use the method:

echo file_get_conten ts( $file_path );

are there any better method?

>
Yes. Use readfile():
>
http://www.php.net/readfile

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