How can I measure the time it takes a file to upload to a PHP script?
- by Gustav Bertram
I am trying to measure the time a script takes to upload a file to a PHP script, inside the receiving script. Here's a short example:
<form action="#" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
Upload:
<input type="file" name="datafile" size="40">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
<?php
$upload_time = time() - $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'];
echo $upload_time . " seconds.";
I've submitted 4MB, 25MB, 100MB and 1.4GB files. They took anything from a fraction of a second, to almost a minute, yet the script above always yielded 0 seconds.
NOTE: I know that this is a duplicate question, but the accepted answer on the other question did not work for me (at least, initially):
Detect how long it takes for a file to upload (PHP)
I've tried it using PHP 5.3.3 with Apache 2.2.16 on Ubuntu 10.4.
UPDATE:
I've discovered that both the Apache header and Ajax solutions work. In fact, the solution on the duplicate question also works.
The critical element to making these solutions work is to ensure that the following values in the php.ini are sufficiently high:
memory_limit = 1000M
upload_max_filesize = 1000M
post_max_size = 1000M
I am accepting the Apache header solution, since it only uses PHP.
