directory bandwidth limits

[The Little Guy]

Is it possible using PHP to set bandwidth limits to certain files?

[BuezaWebDev]

Hrmm--there's probably a more simpler way of doing this, but this is what I would do:

[1] create a php file that uses parameters to reference the specific file you want to monitor bandwidth for.

[2] everytime a request is generated for that file, have a table in the database that stores how many times it's been downloaded.

[3] set a maximum amount of requests in the php file, and simply query the db and check if that file has been downloaded X amount of times--if so, echo "File has reached it's maximum bandwidth."

There's probably an easier way of doing this--but that's my 2 cents.

[bathurst_guy]

I doubt there is actually a php function that does this - you would have to do something like Bueza described

[bokeh]

Hrmm--there's probably a more simpler way of doing this, but this is what I would do:

[1] create a php file that uses parameters to reference the specific file you want to monitor bandwidth for.

[2] everytime a request is generated for that file, have a table in the database that stores how many times it's been downloaded.

[3] set a maximum amount of requests in the php file, and simply query the db and check if that file has been downloaded X amount of times--if so, echo "File has reached it's maximum bandwidth."

There's probably an easier way of doing this--but that's my 2 cents.What's that got to do with measuring bandwidth? The method you describe would measure data transfer not bandwidth. To limit bandwidth (not data transfer) do something like this:function limitBandwith($filename, $speed = 10 /* kilobytes/sec */)
{
ob_start();
include($filename);
$now = time();
foreach(str_split(ob_get_clean(), $speed*1024) as $chunk)
{
echo $chunk;
flush();
$now++;
while($now > time())
{
usleep(100000);
}
}
}This could be made smoother with shorter time increments.