[Xerte-dev] Re: example_zipper issue revisited

[Pat L (pgogy)]

Do we still use the old zip library, or the native php stuff.
Native php might be better? Or another class?
On 1 May 2014 08:37, "Smith, John" <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> All i know Dave is that, with the commented code uncommented, my system
> couldn't download a 56Mb an 79Mb zip but with this code 79Mb came down no
> problem.
>
> We may have to use what we have access to on different systems. There may
> be a similar way to pipe the result into windows or we fall back to the old
> code and crank the memory requirements up yo 300Mb which not everyone can
> most likely do anyway...
>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
>
>
>
> David Goodwin <david at palepurple.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> <snip>
> Uses the unix command zip and pipes the stream back into PHP in 8192 chunks
>
> <snip>
> Also, might not work on Windows...
>
> So therefore it's not worth using?
>
>
> Technically there is no benefit to doing the fread(....) over a
> fpassthru(...)
> fpassthru does something like 8192 chunks internally.
>
>
> David.
>
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