Re: fread() fails with large files

Use readfile instead fread() if you've got some problem with, it looks better! Header("Content-Type: $type"); Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$downloadname"); header("Content-Length: $size"); header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); readfile($file); ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sora B. Harbater" <harbater@teamgenesis.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:44 AM Subject: [PHP] fread() fails with large files > Hi. I am using Linux/Apache with PHP 4.1.2. I have been experiencing this > problem since upgrading from an earlier version of PHP 4. > > My script forces a download of a PDF file after looking up some info in a > database. The code looks like this: > > > $file="/path/to/file"; > $fp = fopen($file, "r"); > $size=filesize($file); > $contents = fread($fp, $size); > fclose($fp); > > Header("Content-Type: $type"); > Header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$downloadname"); > header("Content-Length: $size"); > header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); > echo $contents; > > filesize() is reporting the size properly. The code works perfectly for > smaller files, but the fread() fails for files larger than 19 MB or so and > I got a page cannot be displayed error. I know that it is fread() which is > causing the problem because I commented out all the code that follows it > and still get the error. All the files being downloaded are PDF files. > > Can anyone shed some light on this? > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >