Get MD5 Checksum for Very Large Files

Question

I\'ve written a script that reads through all files in a directory and returns md5 hash for each file. However, it renders nothing for a rather large file. I assume that t

Answer 1

If you're hitting an execution time limit or maximum execution time, PHP should be throwing an error message to that effect. Check your error logs. If you are hitting a limit, you can set the maximum values for PHP memory usage and execution time in your php.ini file:

memory_limit = 16M 

will set max memory usage to 16 megs. For maximum execution time:

max_execution_time = 30

will set maximum execution time to 30 seconds.