Downloading a large file using curl

Question

I need to download remote file using curl.

Here's the sample code I have:

$ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  $st = curl_exec($ch); $fd = fopen($tmp_name, 'w'); fwrite($fd, $st); fclose($fd);  curl_close($ch); 

But it can't handle big files, because it reads to memory first.

Is it possible to stream the file directly to disk?

Answer 1

<?php set_time_limit(0); //This is the file where we save the    information $fp = fopen (dirname(__FILE__) . '/localfile.tmp', 'w+'); //Here is the file we are downloading, replace spaces with %20 $ch = curl_init(str_replace(" ","%20",$url)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 50); // write curl response to file curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // get curl response curl_exec($ch);  curl_close($ch); fclose($fp); ?>