How get remote file content

I want to get remote file content using socket accept, what should my simple code look like for that?

 

I think this may be what you are looking for

The following code is found at: http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

<?php
$fp = fsockopen("www.example.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
} else {
$out = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out .= "Host: www.example.com\r\n";
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
}
?>

 

Thanks littlejohn199
But I doubt for GET, I am going to get big files, will GET method be able to do that?

 

where do you want to add content? in a mysql, csv, txt file ?

-clonepal

 

I want to add in same file, I mean get remote x.zip and add it in current file system as x.zip etc... same with all types of files.

 

I don't understand your question. Where is current file system?

 

k sorry, here is correct question

say we have http://host1.com/somefile.zip
somefile.zip on server1 ( http://host1.com )

I want to create same file on my second server http://host2.com/somefile.zip
somefile.zip on server2 ( http://host2.com )

Php script is located on server2 ( http://host2.com/getremotefile.php )

 

<?php
$fileLocation="http://host1.com/somefile.zip";
$fileName="somefile.zip";

file_put_contents($fileName, file_get_contents($fileLocation));
?>

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thanks TimK, but as far as I know the remote file access is not allowed via fopen() or file_get_contents() on all hosting servers, this will not work on many of them, am I correct?

 

You are correct, in which case you could use cURL.

<?php

function curl_get_file_contents($URL)
    {
       $c = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
        $contents = curl_exec($c);
        curl_close($c);

        if ($contents) return $contents;
            else return FALSE;
}

file_get_contents_curl($fileName);

?>

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ok, thanks a lot TimK, this one is exact for my case.

 

Here is a function to see the size before downloading on server2.

function remotefsize($url) {
        global $CONF, $DB, $FORM, $LNG, $TIMER;
         $urlpar = parse_url($url);
         $sch = $urlpar['scheme'];
         if (($sch != "http") && ($sch != "https") && ($sch != "ftp") && ($sch != "ftps")) return false;
         if (($sch == "http") || ($sch == "https")) {
            $headers = $this -> my_get_headers($url, 1);
             if ((!array_key_exists("content-length", $headers))) return false;
             return $headers["content-length"];
             } 
        if (($sch == "ftp") || ($sch == "ftps")) {
            $server = $urlpar['host'];
             $port = $urlpar['port'];
             $path = $urlpar['path'];
             $user = $urlpar['user'];
             $pass = $urlpar['pass'];
             if ((!$server) || (!$path))return false;
             if (!$port)$port = 21;
             if (!$user)$user = "anonymous";
             if (!$pass) $pass = "phpos@";
             switch ($sch) {
            case "ftp":
                 $ftpid = ftp_connect($server, $port);
                 break;
             case "ftps":
                 $ftpid = ftp_ssl_connect($server, $port);
                 break;
                 } 
            if (!$ftpid) return false;
             $login = ftp_login($ftpid, $user, $pass);
             if (!$login) return false;
             $ftpsize = ftp_size($ftpid, $path);
             ftp_close($ftpid);
             if ($ftpsize == -1) return false;
             return $ftpsize;
             } 
        } 

Code (markup):

-clonepal

 

ah, great algorithm!

but seems it need to fix this row

$headers = $this -> my_get_headers($url, 1);

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