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PHP Download file to server and update a status bar


rukas

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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

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.

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