CurlAxel - PHP file download accelerator

[praveer]

Thanks a lot for this awesome script. You rock

[CuraHack]

I got this error:

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/curahack/public_html/axel/CurlAxel.php on line 141

[aishamontreal]

Keep up the good work dear!

[jokerhacker]

I got this error:

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/curahack/public_html/axel/CurlAxel.php on line 141

are you sure you have the last verson?
+ you didn't edit the file?

[soft2050]

Nice class you made there

Surely going to use it in my projects

[CuraHack]

are you sure you have the last verson?
+ you didn't edit the file?

I'm running 0.1b, I've only added a testfile to download, and modded the download location:

class CurlAxel {
	private $url = "http://93.190.137.8/1000mb.bin";
	private $optarray = array();
	private $megaconnection;
	private $partnames = array();
	private $tempdir = "./temp/";
	private $downdir = "./files/";
	private $partcount = 5;
	private $log = true;
	private $buffersize = 67108864;
	public $version = "0.1b beta 27/08/11";

[jokerhacker]

CuraHack, you don't need to put dots, just check the __construct function
try to revert the mods, and use it like that : create another file in the same dir and put its contents like that

<?php
require_once "CurlAxel.php";
$fileurl = "http://93.190.137.8/1000mb.bin"; 
$curlaxel = new CurlAxel; 
$curlaxel->setUrl($fileurl); 
$curlaxel->activeLog(true); 
//$curlaxel->setTempDir(somewhere);
//$curlaxel->setDownloadDir(somewhere);
$curlaxel->download();

aishamontreal, soft2050, praveer : i'm glad you like it

[jokerhacker]

i need some recommendations from a developer so i can add some features like http-headers to send etc...

[Lifetalk]

Good script, and most definitely good effort right there. But a quick look through it, and the way you're accelerating downloads (using Curl) is not efficient at all. As it stands, curl/php is not good with file streaming/handling. And curl was most definitely not built with multi threaded downloading as it's pioneer or trump feature; it's just there.

I'll go through it in detail and suggest improvements. But beyond that, good effort.

Google 'Aria2' and then Google 'Aria2Web'. Then look through Aria2Web and see if you can create a simpler class based on that for users of KWWH. Aria2 is an excellent command line download accelerator for Linux; and coding a PHP XML-RPC gateway for it, which is simpler (and works) would be a great idea.

[CuraHack]

Good script, and most definitely good effort right there. But a quick look through it, and the way you're accelerating downloads (using Curl) is not efficient at all. As it stands, curl/php is not good with file streaming/handling. And curl was most definitely not built with multi threaded downloading as it's pioneer or trump feature; it's just there.

I'll go through it in detail and suggest improvements. But beyond that, good effort.

Google 'Aria2' and then Google 'Aria2Web'. Then look through Aria2Web and see if you can create a simpler class based on that for users of KWWH. Aria2 is an excellent command line download accelerator for Linux; and coding a PHP XML-RPC gateway for it, which is simpler (and works) would be a great idea.

Hi, Lifetalk,

JokerHacker's idea was originated from my thread here, we already had this discussion, as mentioned in that thread Aria's XML-RPC is very badly documented so it'll be very hard to build as scripts as such with Aria's API, if you're able to prove us wrong, feel free to do so