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September 2nd, 2012, 01:20 AM

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A question about file php header

The file is about 300mb, it downloads a 1kb file!

The file format is a .m4v video. What am I doing wrong?

(It works for .mov files but my files have to be m4v)!

Thanks.

PHP Code:


		
			
 header('Content-Description: File Transfer');

header('Content-Type: video/m4v');

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));

header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');

header('Expires: 0');

header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');

header('Pragma: public');

header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));

ob_clean();

flush();

readfile($file);

exit;

Last edited by zxcvbnm : September 2nd, 2012 at 02:42 AM.

September 2nd, 2012, 04:26 AM

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What's the contents of the file? The 1KB one you downloaded, not what you're trying to get.

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September 2nd, 2012, 08:32 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by requinix

What's the contents of the file? The 1KB one you downloaded, not what you're trying to get.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 303388673 bytes) in /hsphere/local/home/behnam/****.com/controllers/download.php on line 29

September 2nd, 2012, 08:31 PM

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This is working. The only problem is when I am downloading, I cannot access the same wesbites from the same browser window!
Is this an issue I could fix? Maybe I compress the file to zip and then allow them to download a zip?
Thank you

PHP Code:


		
			
 ini_set("memory_limit","900M");

$file="/hsphere/local/home/behnam/download_stuff/video.m4v";

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');

header('Content-Type: video/x-m4v');

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));

header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));

readfile($file);

Last edited by zxcvbnm : September 2nd, 2012 at 09:24 PM.

September 3rd, 2012, 02:05 AM

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Don't up the memory limit to something as ridiculous as 900M. Keep it low, at like 128MB or so, and if you run into problems then fix the problems.

Apparently readfile() buffers the file into memory. Try a simple fopen/fread/fclose loop instead.

September 3rd, 2012, 02:48 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by requinix

The file is 890mb.

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September 3rd, 2012, 04:24 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by requinix

And?

Miss, I tried this script but I get error again! Please guide. Thanks

PHP Code:


		
			
 $file="/hsphere/local/home/video_medium.m4v";    

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');

header('Content-Type: video/x-m4v');

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));

header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));

$handle = fopen($file,'r');

echo $content = fread($handle, filesize($file));

fclose($handle);

Quote:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 734003200 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 529375233 bytes) in ******* on line 38 //Line 38 echo $content = fread($handle, filesize($file));

Edit:
Same with: echo file_get_contents($file);

Last edited by zxcvbnm : September 3rd, 2012 at 04:28 AM.

September 3rd, 2012, 04:49 AM

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Thanks. Looks like this is working fine:

PHP Code:


		
			
 set_time_limit(0);

$filer = @fopen($file,"rb");

while(!feof($filer))

{

    print(@fread($filer, 1024*8));

    ob_flush();

    flush();

}

A question about file php header

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