Hi, It can't be a memory limit problem. The server ha 2GB memory, and in PHP each script can consume up to 64MB. On php4, apache 1.3 and same configs readfile works without fread tricks. C. Rory Browne wrote: > It's probably something to do with maximum memory, or something like > that, but taking into account that your method is stretching the > resources, fopen/fread may be a better solution. > > I'd be curious to see the benchmarked differences - but couldn't be > bothered at this minute doing the benchmarking atm. > > On 6/10/05, Catalin Trifu <catalin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Tried it and it works indeed, but it's quite annoying to make such tricks >>and is not the best solution either; fopen and fread are "expensive". >> I can't say if it's a bug in PHP or some config option. >> >> >>C. >> >> >>Rory Browne wrote: >> >>>I've never came across that problem, but try this >>> >>>function output_file($filename){ >>>$fp = fopen($filename, "r"); >>>while(!feof($fp)){ >>> echo fread($fp, 1024000); >>>} >>>} >>> >>>On 6/9/05, Catalin Trifu <catalin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>> I installed php5 using the configue below. I tried with apache2 as well and same things. >>>> >>>>'./configure' '--prefix=/usr/local/php5' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--disable-cgi' >>>>'--with-config-file-path=/etc/php5' '--with-dom' '--with-gd' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-exif' >>>>'--with-freetype2' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/freetype2' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' >>>>'--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--with-curl' '--with-curlwrappers' '--enable-ftp' '--with-mysql=/usr' >>>>'--with-xsl' '--with-libxml-dir=/usr' >>>> >>>> I have a script which generates a temporary catalog file, which is generated correctly having >>>>4.7MB on disk. >>>> Then I push up the wire with readfile($filname): >>>> >>>> header("Content-Type: text/csv"); >>>> header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=somfilename.csv"); >>>> header("Content-Length: ". filesize($file)); >>>> >>>> readfile($file); >>>> >>>> I also tried with fopen. >>>> If I try to download the file directly from apache it works, all 4.7MB are received. >>>> >>>> As expected the browser starts the download and reports it is expecting a file of 4.7MB. >>>> However, the download stops at 2.000.000 bytes no matter what browser I use (normally i use >>>>Firefox on Linux), no matter if php runs on apache2 or apache1.3 >>>> >>>> Is there some php config option I missed ? >>>> Could this be from curlwrappers ? >>>> Where could this come from ? >>>> >>>> >>>>Thanks, >>>>Catalin >>>> >>>>-- >>>>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>>>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>>> >>>> >> >>-- >>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php