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Patrick
Patrick

Reputation: 4905

php only download first 1mb of a file

I'm using file_get_contents to get a remote file. My question is, is it possible to ask php to downlaod the first 1mb of a file rather than the whole file? Thank you!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 412

Answers (2)

hsz
hsz

Reputation: 152206

From php.net file_get_contents

string file_get_contents ( string $filename [, bool $use_include_path = false [, resource $context [, int $offset = -1 [, int $maxlen ]]]] )

You have to specify last maxlen parameter (in bytes).

maxlen

Maximum length of data read. The default is to read until end of file is reached. Note that this parameter is applied to the stream processed by the filters.

Upvotes: 3

Techie
Techie

Reputation: 45124

According to my knowledge you can not specify the number of MBs but you can do something like below.

<?php
// Read 14 characters starting from the 21st character
$section = file_get_contents('./people.txt', NULL, NULL, 20, 14);
var_dump($section);
?>

Read Docs

string file_get_contents ( string $filename [, bool $use_include_path
= false [, resource $context [, int $offset = -1 [, int $maxlen ]]]] )

maxlen - Maximum length of data read. The default is to read until end of file is reached. Note that this parameter is applied to the stream processed by the filters.

Upvotes: 2

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