[PHP] Download Multiple Files at once

[zackiv31]

I have a php page that needs to download a bunch of images (5~100)... right now I'm doing it in a loop, so it doesn't try to download the next one until the previous one is done.... Because I'm using these images to create my page, it takes a good 10~15 seconds in some cases for the page to load.

I'm looking for some way to download kind of like a browser, where it opens up multiple connections simultaneously to download all the images at the same time. Does something like this exist in php?

[Vlad]

You could fork each request.

[zackiv31]

ya i was just reading this demonstration...

http://immike.net/scripts/youtube-user-forked.php.txt

what I'm reading on the webs is that it is highly discouraged on a web server (where I was planning on using it)... which is why they don't compile it in apache by default and I'm not able to use pcntl_fork out of the box... grr

[DrDrrae]

I haven't tried this but it might help you.

http://webforumz.com/php-forum/12595-multithreaded-php.htm

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

Only way this will work, is if you enable automatic download into a folder, or else you'll get 5-100 prompts.

[Kami-]

uh huh... also, might not be advisable if you have large amounts of users.