rukas Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I have a PHP script with HTML embedded in it. This script downloads files to the local server(that the script is hosted on) based on a submission from a form. The files are quite large so I'd like to show a progress bar of the download on the webpage. How do I download the files and update the progress bar with the percentage complete for each? Thanks in advance, Rukas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) Easiest way would be with APC, second most with a database. The script doing the download needs to know how far it's gone and possibly how much further it needs to go (if you want that). As it's downloading it updates whatever location you want with its progress. The progress bar and corresponding AJAX read that data. Note you can't use copy() or file_get_contents() for this - has to be a fopen/fread/fclose loop. Although cURL is powerful, it might have something relevant. Edited January 21, 2013 by requinix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Letter E Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 (edited) If your version is new enough you can also use: http://php.net/manual/en/session.upload-progress.php Edited January 22, 2013 by The Letter E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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