Split big files using PHP

Question

I want to split huge files (to be specific, tar.gz files) in multiple part from php code. Main reason to do this is, php's 2gb limit on 32bit system.

SO I want to split big files in multiple part and process each part seperately.

Is this possible? If yes, how?

Answer 1

My comment was voted up twice, so maybe my guess was onto something :P

If on a unix environment, try this...

exec('split -d -b 2048m file.tar.gz pieces');

split

Your pieces should be pieces1, pieces2, etc.

You could get the number of resulting pieces easily by using stat() in PHP to get the file size and then do the simple math (int) ($stat['size'] / 2048*1024*1024) (I think).