Question

I want to download some files programatically from a remote server.

If you can write the code-snippet in VB, VB.NET, Java, or PHP I can try to solve the rest by myself.

Sample file address:

• http://www.example.com/file1.pdf
• http://www.example.com/file2.pdf
• http://www.example.com/file%20n-1.pdf

It will be helpful if you give solutions to this problem in PHP so I can test in WAMP.

Answer 1

PHP example

<?php
$files = array('file1.pdf', 'file2.pdf', 'filen.pdf');

$remoteBase = 'http://www.site.com/';
$localBase = 'downloads/';

foreach( $files as $f ) {
    $fp = fopen($remoteBase.$f, 'rb');
    if ( !$fp ) {
        echo 'error, ', $f, "\n";
    }
    else {
        file_put_contents($localBase.$f, $fp);
        fclose($fp);
    }
}