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I'm using a script to get files from my server. I'm using aria2 to download the files quickly and it works great but is there a way when the script is running to output what is happening in the command.

For example when you run this command via command line you get updates every couple of seconds

$output = shell_exec('aria2c http://myserver.com/myfile.rar');
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";

I get these outputs:

[#f6a7c4 9.5MiB/1.7GiB(0%) CN:15 SD:5 DL:431KiB ETA:1h9m9s]

[#f6a7c4 52MiB/1.7GiB(2%) CN:23 SD:7 DL:0.9MiB ETA:30m19s]

[#f6a7c4 141MiB/1.7GiB(8%) CN:26 SD:4 DL:1.7MiB ETA:15m34s]

The script only shows me this data once it has finished executing, Which can be upto 5+ minutes so i would like to know whats going on if possible?

Ive tried adding the following:

ob_start();
--Get URL for Files and show URL on screen
ob_flush();
--Start downloading file
ob_flush();

Thanks

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2 Answers 2

up vote 2 down vote

You need to open a process descriptor handle to read asyncronously with proc_open() and read from this stream using stream_get_contents().

Your tool to download flushes the progress with a \r char at the end, which overwrites the actual line because there is no following \n newline char.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.proc-open.php

Please refer to these functions to find examples of code on php.net or google.

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up vote 2 down vote

You should better use proc_open, instead of shell_exec()...:

<?php
    $cmd = 'wget http://192.168.10.30/p/myfile.rar';
    $pipes = array();
    $descriptors = array(
        0 => array("pipe", "r"),
        1 => array("pipe", "w"),
        2 => array("pipe", "w"),
    );
    $process = proc_open($cmd, $descriptors, $pipes) or die("Can't open process $cmd!");

    $output = "";
    while (!feof($pipes[2])) {
        $read = array($pipes[2]);
        stream_select($read, $write = NULL, $except = NULL, 0);
        if (!empty($read)) {
            $output .= fgets($pipes[2]);
        }
        # HERE PARSE $output TO UPDATE DOWNLOAD STATUS...
        print $output;
    }
    fclose($pipes[0]);
    fclose($pipes[1]);
    fclose($pipes[2]);
    proc_close($process);
    ?>

UPDATE: Yes, sorry, corrected a couple of errors... :-(

And, be sure "aria2" executable is in your php environment PATH... To be on the safe side, you should specify it's full path on your system...

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getting quite a few errors when i try and run this – Exoon Dec 16 '13 at 15:51
    
Warning: feof() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in /var/www2/html/download.php on line 9 Warning: stream_select(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /var/www2/html/download.php on line 11 Warning: stream_select() [function.stream-select]: No stream arrays were passed in /var/www2/html/download.php on line 11 Warning: fread() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in /var/www2/html/download.php on line 13 – Exoon Dec 16 '13 at 15:53
    
Yse, sorry, just updated answer, it should be working, now... – MarcoS Dec 16 '13 at 16:01
    
still seem to be getting same errors, i tried replacing aria2c with wget and same errors. Im not actually sure about aria2c is executable by php environment path, When i use shell_exec it runs fine, does that mean its ok ? thanks for the help really appreciate it. – Exoon Dec 16 '13 at 16:05
    
Let me see, I'll try with wget... – MarcoS Dec 16 '13 at 16:06

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