Question

I need my server to download a file and write it to the server’s filesystem. The problem is that all the PHP examples I’ve seen download the file into server RAM and then write to a file.

Since I’m dealing with large files, I’d like PHP to read the file from the other server and immediately write what it reads to a local file.

Answer 1

Use curl like this:

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

 $fp = fopen($path, 'w');

 $ch = curl_init($url);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);

 $data = curl_exec($ch);

 curl_close($ch);
 fclose($fp);
?>