On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Brian Dunning <br...@briandunning.com> wrote:
>
> This is a holiday-crunch emergency.
>
> I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs
> 24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a few hundred K and about 50 MB.
> Their security process requires the files to be downloaded via https using a
> big long URL with lots of credential parameters.
>
> Here's how I'm doing it. This is on Windows, a quad Xeon with 16GB RAM:
>
> $ctx = stream_context_create(array('http' => array('timeout' => 1200)));
> $contents = file_get_contents($full_url, 0, $ctx);
> $fp = fopen('D:\\DocShare\\'.$filename, "w");
> $bytes_written = fwrite($fp, $contents);
> fclose($fp);
>
> It's WAY TOO SLOW. I can paste the URL into a browser and download even the
> largest files quite quickly, but the PHP method bottlenecks and cannot keep
> up.
>
> Is there a SUBSTANTIALLY faster way to download and save these files? Keep in
> mind the client's requirements cannot be changed. Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
Well one problem with your code is file_get_contents. Its downloading
the entire file, putting it in a variable, then returning that
variable. Then you write this super huge variable (as much as 50MB
from what you said) to a file. If you think about what might be going
on underneath that seemingly simple function, there could be millions
of memory reallocations occurring to accommodate this growing
variable. I would instead use fopen and read a set number of bytes
into a buffer variable (taking into consideration available bandwidth)
and write it to the file. That said, I would never do this kind of a
program in PHP. Like other's have suggested, use curl or wget, and
you can interface with it through PHP to initiate and control the
process if you need to.
--
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
