FTP - downloading a file in chunks

[blindlemonsam]

PHP version 4.4.4

Hi, what I'm trying to do is download though php (using ftp functions) a file from a home server in chunks (to prevent a browser from timing out). The files go from home-ftp-server to commercial server to customers pc. Its the home-ftp server to commercial server that needs editing. How do you use the resume option of the php function ftp_get()?. Can anyone help??

[ronverdonk]

That option is used to specify the offset position in the remote file from where the download starts.

For chunk downloading you need to split the remote file into x parts, then download each part separately and join them after the last download.

Ronald

[blindlemonsam]

That option is used to specify the offset position in the remote file from where the download starts.

Is it not possible then to specify the stop position on a remote file? You could then do it in parts.

For chunk downloading you need to split the remote file into x parts, then download each part separately and join them after the last download.

Is it possible to join them using php? Say you split them into 500KB files...