On Wed, February 13, 2008 4:28 am, Ritesh Nadhani wrote: > I have a situation where I have to copy something like 1000 files one > by one to a temporary folder. Tar it using the system tar command and > let the user download the tar file. > > Now while the copy is going on at server, I want to show some progress > to the user at client side. Most of the tutorial I found on net was > about showing progress while a file is being uploaded from client to > server. In this case the client has the info but for my case, the > client has no info. > > A similar was problem was solved at > http://menno.b10m.net/blog/blosxom/perl/cgi-upload-hook.html but its > in PERL and uses some form of hook. I have no clue how to do it in > PHP. > > Any clues or right direction would be awesome. First of all, don't do that. :-) Instead, set up a "job" system of what should be copied/tarred, and then notify the user via email. Don't make the user sit there waiting for the computer! If you absolutely HAVE to do this due to a pointy-haired boss... <?php $path = "/full/path/to/1000s/of/files"; $dir = opendir($path) or die("Change that path"); $tmp = tmpname(); //or whatever... while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false){ echo "$file<br />\n"; copy("$path/$file", "/tmp/$tmp/$path"); } exec("tar -cf /tmp/$tmp.tar /tmp/$tmp/", $output, $error); echo implode("<br />\n", $output); if ($error){ //handle error here! die("OS Error: $error"); } ?> shameless plug: //handle error here could perhaps use this: http://l-i-e.com/perror. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
