[PHP] fpassthru (was: fgets)
What exactly does fpassthru do? Does it download it to my server and then shoot it to the browser?? Joseph -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] fpassthru (was: fgets)
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Joseph Bannon wrote: What exactly does fpassthru do? Does it download it to my server and then shoot it to the browser?? (http://php.net/fpassthru) For the file pointer on which it operates, it reads the file pointer until EOF and sends the data to STDOUT. It is very much like the 'cat' command in Unix. The file pointer can be to a local or remote file opened with fopen(), or a remote data source opened with fsockopen(). And as always, there's a gem in the docs ... readfile() does the same thing as fpassthru() but doesn't need a file pointer. It just needs a path to a file, so you can eliminate the fopen(). ~Chris /\ \ / Pine Ribbon Campaign Microsoft Security Specialist X Against Outlook The moron in Oxymoron. / \ http://www.thebackrow.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] fpassthru (was: fgets)
The thing I want to avoid is using my server's bandwidth. Each member gets a profile and can have a photo referenced from their homepage. I use to allow people to upload photos, but I'm getting close to using my 60GB bandwith limit. The people that have photos on geocities couldn't reference a photo because their servers don't allow remote hosts displaying pictures off their site. Using 'fpassthru' fixed that. However, my next question is if the 'fpassthru' brings the information to my server and then shoots it to the visitor's browser. I know I'm not saving their photos to my server, I just want to make sure I'm not killing my alotted bandwith. Does 'fpassthru' do this? If so, is there another solution? Thanks for helping me with this. Joseph -Original Message- On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Joseph Bannon wrote: What exactly does fpassthru do? Does it download it to my server and then shoot it to the browser?? (http://php.net/fpassthru) For the file pointer on which it operates, it reads the file pointer until EOF and sends the data to STDOUT. It is very much like the 'cat' command in Unix. The file pointer can be to a local or remote file opened with fopen(), or a remote data source opened with fsockopen(). And as always, there's a gem in the docs ... readfile() does the same thing as fpassthru() but doesn't need a file pointer. It just needs a path to a file, so you can eliminate the fopen(). -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] fpassthru (was: fgets)
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Joseph Bannon wrote: The thing I want to avoid is using my server's bandwidth. Each member gets a profile and can have a photo referenced from their homepage. I use to allow people to upload photos, but I'm getting close to using my 60GB bandwith limit. The people that have photos on geocities couldn't reference a photo because their servers don't allow remote hosts displaying pictures off their site. Using 'fpassthru' fixed that. However, my next question is if the 'fpassthru' brings the information to my server and then shoots it to the visitor's browser. I know I'm not saving their photos to my server, I just want to make sure I'm not killing my alotted bandwith. Does 'fpassthru' do this? If so, is there another solution? If the image you're sending to the browser comes from a remote host, unfortunately, yes, that image data does get transferred to your server, and then gets transferred again to the users' browsers. Since PHP is a server-side solution, there isn't a way to skip out on the data transfer to your server and use PHP to send the image. The image data has to come from your server when using PHP. You may have to get creative with HTML, DHTML, etc. to work around displaying the remote images from your site. ~Chris /\ \ / Pine Ribbon Campaign Microsoft Security Specialist X Against Outlook The moron in Oxymoron. / \ http://www.thebackrow.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] fpassthru (was: fgets)
Dang it! -lol Any ideas how to get around my problem? J -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] fpassthru (was: fgets)
What if I pass something in the header? Will that work? Joseph -Original Message- From: Christopher William Wesley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:05 PM To: PHP (E-mail) Subject: RE: [PHP] fpassthru (was: fgets) On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Joseph Bannon wrote: The thing I want to avoid is using my server's bandwidth. Each member gets a profile and can have a photo referenced from their homepage. I use to allow people to upload photos, but I'm getting close to using my 60GB bandwith limit. The people that have photos on geocities couldn't reference a photo because their servers don't allow remote hosts displaying pictures off their site. Using 'fpassthru' fixed that. However, my next question is if the 'fpassthru' brings the information to my server and then shoots it to the visitor's browser. I know I'm not saving their photos to my server, I just want to make sure I'm not killing my alotted bandwith. Does 'fpassthru' do this? If so, is there another solution? If the image you're sending to the browser comes from a remote host, unfortunately, yes, that image data does get transferred to your server, and then gets transferred again to the users' browsers. Since PHP is a server-side solution, there isn't a way to skip out on the data transfer to your server and use PHP to send the image. The image data has to come from your server when using PHP. You may have to get creative with HTML, DHTML, etc. to work around displaying the remote images from your site. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
