Is there a good implementation of partial file downloading in PHP?

Question

I\'m writing a PHP script that allows the user to download a file. Basically the idea is to prevent the file being downloaded more than X times, since it is paid content, an

Answer 1

Perhaps instead of implementing web server in a web server (yo dawg!) you could use mod trigger before download in lighttpd or mod X-Sendfile available for both lighttpd and Apache2?