Question

How can I upload a remote file from a link for example, http://site.com/file.zip to an FTP server using PHP? I want to upload ‘Vanilla Forum Software’ to the server and my mobile data carrier charges high prices, so if I could upload the file w/o having to upload it from my mobile I could save money and get the job done too.

Answer 1

Made you this function:

function downloadfile($file, $path) {
    if(isset($file) && isset($path)) {
            $fc = implode('', file($file));
            $fp = explode('/', $file);
            $fn = $fp[count($fp) - 1];

                if(file_exists($path . $fn)) { 
                    $Files = fopen($path . $fn, 'w');
                } else {
                    $Files = fopen($path . $fn, 'x+');
                }
                $Writes = fwrite($Files, $fc);
                if ($Writes != 0){
                    echo 'Saved at ' . $path . $fn . '.';
                    fclose($Files);
                }
                else{
                echo 'Error.';
                }

    }

}

You may use it like this:

downloadfile("http://www.webforless.dk/logo.png","folder/");

Hope it works well, remember to Chmod the destination folder 777.
((If you need it to upload to yet another FTP server, you could use one of the FTP scripts posted in the other comments))

Best regards. Jonas