Advise me the most optimal way to save large files from php stdin, please. iOS developer sends me large video content to server and i have to store it in to files.
I read the stdin thread with video data and write it to the file. For example, in this way:
$handle = fopen("php://input", "rb"); while (!feof($handle)) { $http_raw_post_data .= fread($handle, 8192); } What function is better to use? file_get_contents or fread or something else?
I agree with @hek2mgl that treating this as a multipart form upload would make most sense, but if you can't alter your input interface then you can use file_put_contents() on a stream instead of looping through the file yourself.
$handle = fopen("php://input", "rb"); if (false === file_put_contents("outputfile.dat", $handle)) { // handle error } fclose($handle); It's cleaner than iterating through the file, and it might be faster (I haven't tested).
Don't use file_get_contents because it would attempt to load all the content of the file into a string
file_get_contents() is the preferred way to read the contents of a file into a string. It will use memory mapping techniques if supported by your OS to enhance performance.
Am sure you just want to create the movie file on your server .. this is a more efficient way
$in = fopen("php://input", "rb"); $out = fopen('largefile.dat', 'w'); while ( ! feof($in) ) { fwrite($out, fread($in, 8192)); } If you use nginx as web server i want to recommend nginx upload module with possibility to resume upload.
