server to server copy script stops in the middle of transfer

hello, i need some help i use this script

<?php
$source = 'http://www.site.com/file.zip';
$target = 'file.zip';

if (@copy($source, $target))
{
    echo 'File copied';
}
else
{
    echo 'Could not copy file';
}
?>

Code (markup):

everything works great if i'm copying smaller files, largest one i copied so far was 13 MB, but i tried to copy a file that has 94 MB and it stops on 23MB, a file of 20 MB stops on 16MB, i dont' know what the problem was.

I suspected on 2 things,

1.upload size limit, but it is not that, limit is 64M, ok i couldn't copy the 94 one, but the 20 MB one should work

and i received an explination that it is the memory limit cause it is on 64M, is that the problem?

If it is how can i change it and make it work

thanks in advance

 

Upload limit isn't relevant in this case. It's most likely execution time - check whether it's taking too long to read the file from the remote server.

It's possible that copy() was written in a very lazy way and tries to hold the whole thing in memory when using the URL wrappers but I sure hope that's not true.

 

You should check the following:
Apache Time out
Php Time out

 

Two things to check out are these

set_time_limit
max_execution_time

Seems like what Small Potatoes is saying is correct it is timeing out before it could download the whole file.

ini_set('max_execution_time',0);

.

As for upload_max_filesize that is mostly for POST html forms. memory_limit could affect it, but you said you have it up to 64MB so that is a bunch already then.

 

you guys/gals are life savers, after your advice i changed the script to work like this

<?php

ini_set('max_execution_time',0);
$source = 'http://www.site.com/file.zip';
$target = 'file.zip';

if (@copy($source, $target))
{
    echo 'File copied';
}
else
{
    echo 'Could not copy file';
}
?>

Code (markup):

and it works like a charm, rep added to all of you, thanks a million
regards

 

thankyou so much for adding rep. I saw it today only so replying late.