Grabbing remote file - progress?

[rosscarlson]

Here's what I want to go:

• Read a remote file (specifically an MP3)
• Read the binary data into a variable
• Write this to disk

I have that working just fine - but what I want is a progress while this is happening. I'm using file_get_contents right now and I assume I'd have to use something different that would let me loop through the file X times - that way I'd know where I am. I'd then update the browser using JavaScript so that the user would know how much longer this will take.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ross

[devinemke]

rosscarlson wrote:

- Read a remote file (specifically an MP3)
- Read the binary data into a variable
- Write this to disk

why not simply [man]copy[/man] the file?

[_RL_Ian]

rosscarlson wrote:

Here's what I want to go:

• Read a remote file (specifically an MP3)
• Read the binary data into a variable
• Write this to disk

I have that working just fine - but what I want is a progress while this is happening. I'm using file_get_contents right now and I assume I'd have to use something different that would let me loop through the file X times - that way I'd know where I am. I'd then update the browser using JavaScript so that the user would know how much longer this will take.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ross

You need AJAX!

Here's a sample of what you can do with it.