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Best way to download a file in PHP

i have been asked to download several videos in a format like:

http://website.com/asset/v00/488/618.asx

and i can’t find the way (with save as.. is not posible and all this youtube download services say that ‘service is unknown’). Can i do it with some php script?

it would be great to be able to call a funcion like:

function downloadFile($url){
   //prompt download

}

Answer 1

If the files are big, you’ll have to use fopen() to read the content of the incoming data as you write it to disk:

$fp = fopen('http://website.com/asset/v00/488/618.asx', 'r');
$fpl = fopen('local/618.asx', 'w');
while(!feof($fp)){
    fwrite($fpl, fread($fp, 1024));
}
fclose($fp);
fclose($fpl);

Else, if the file is small, you can just file_get_contents() it to your memory and then dump it using file_put_contents()…