Download Remote File to Server with PHP

Question

I've been looking all over the place for the last two days and trying everything and still can't get anything to work. I feel like this should be a relatively simple thing to do.

All I want to do is download a remote file from a URL to a directory on my server.

So, for example, if

$_url = http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/download/temp/1306495040_Number_Blink_1.1.1.apk

and $_dir = /www/downloads/

Then when all is said and done I want 1306495040_Number_Blink_1.1.1.apk in /www/downloads/

I've tried the copy() function, I've tried

file_put_contents("$_dir.$_file_name", file_get_contents($_url));

and get the following error:

file_get_contents(): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

Answer 1

Since PHP 5.1.0, file_put_contents() supports writing piece-by-piece by passing a stream-handle as the $data parameter:
No need to use Curl

file_put_contents("Tmpfile.zip", fopen("http://someurl/file.zip", 'r'));

Answer 2

$url  = 'http://www.example.com/a-large-file.zip';
$path = '/path/to/a-large-file.zip';

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

file_put_contents($path, $data);

it uses curl

$url is the file url

$path is where and the name to save the file

i hope it works

Answer 3

This should do it :

set_time_limit(0);

$url = 'http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/download/temp/1306495040_Number_Blink_1.1.1.apk';
$file = fopen(dirname(__FILE__) . '/downloads/a.apk', 'w+');

$curl = curl_init();

// Update as of PHP 5.4 array() can be written []
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL            => $url,
//  CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER => 1, --- No effect from PHP 5.1.3
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
    CURLOPT_FILE           => $file,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 50,
    CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)'
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);

if($response === false) {
    // Update as of PHP 5.3 use of Namespaces Exception() becomes \Exception()
    throw new \Exception('Curl error: ' . curl_error($curl));
}

$response; // Do something with the response.