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PHP

Posted by Matthew Demoss
Matthew Demoss
33 Points

Php curl get amount of bytes written

How can i know how much data is written in php curl . Here is my code which downloads i.e writes the data to my local server from a remote url . But i want to know how much data has been written till now .

<?php
$url  = 'https://speed.hetzner.de/1GB.bin';
$path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/1gb.bin';

$fp = fopen($path, 'w');

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);