Aras wrote: > First of all, Happy New Year for everyone in the list. I wish 2007 brings > all us happiness, health and peace. > > I want to read your advises at a point i am stuck within, i have an > application that serves downloads to clients. For some reason i am limiting > total open slot for some group of users (not related to my technical > question). > > Example; > > // CHECKS SLOT HERE > > else { // IF THERE ANY AVAILABLE SLOTS SEND THE FILE > > // INCREMENT SLOT NUMBER BY 1 > > $fp = fopen($pathside,"r"); > > if ($fp) { > > while (!feof($fp)) { > echo fread($fp, 334); > > $bytes_out += 334; > ob_flush(); > > if ($bytes_out > $size) { > > // DECREASE SLOT NUMBER BY 1, BECAUSE THIS DOWNLOAD IS FINISHED > > } > > } > > } > > } > > > Slots are recorded and checked from a simple mysql table. Everything works > in this scenario. There is no problem if a person starts a download and > finishes it, his slots get empty upon doing so. Yet if he cancelles the > transfer, he will never reach my control structure to empty the slot. And > slots will be full of zombies. > > I have thought of updating a mysql field for alive-connections in the while > loop, but it will definitely add some load on my server. Updating a system > file is not secure and good way. > > What other ways can you recommend to me for the situtation? Read through this: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.connection-handling.php -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php