note 51720 modified in function.fread by danbrown

From: Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:10:57 +0000
Subject: note 51720 modified in function.fread by danbrown
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For download the big files (more than 8MB), you must used ob_flush() because the function flush empty the Apache memory and not PHP memory. And the max size of PHP memory is 8MB, but ob_flush is able to empty the PHP memory. <?php header('Content-Type: application/force-download'); header ("Content-Length: " . filesize($file)); header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$theFileName"); $fd = fopen($file, "r"); while(!feof($fd)) { echo fread($fd, 4096); ob_flush(); } ?> --was-- For download the big files (more than 8MB), you must used ob_flush() because the function flush empty the Apache memory and not PHP memory. And the max size of PHP memory is 8MB, but ob_flush is able to empty the PHP memory. header('Content-Type: application/force-download'); header ("Content-Length: " . filesize($file)); header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$theFileName"); $fd = fopen($file, "r"); while(!feof($fd)) { echo fread($fd, 4096); ob_flush(); } http://php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php

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