How to download file from link use Curl PHP

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Hi, try this:

$source ="https://myapps.gia.edu/ReportCheckPortal/downloadReport.do?reportNo=1152872617&weight=1.35";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $source);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3);
$data = curl_exec ($ch);
$error = curl_error($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

$destination ="./files/test.pdf";
$file = fopen($destination,"w+");
fputs($file, $data);
fclose($file);

 

Hi Argento,

Thank for you idea,

How i can get type of file? Because i don't know type of file in dowload link. It can be zip, zar....

 

Hi ! You can do it in this way:

$filename="this.is.the.file.png";
$filename_arr = explode(".", $filename);
$count_of_elements = count($filename_arr);
$file_extension = $filename_arr[$count_of_elements -1];

 

Hi Argento,

My question is: How to get file type of file after statement: $data = curl_exec ($ch); ?

 

$extension = pathinfo($YOURFILENAME, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);

 

A couple of things.

With CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER alone, you're loading the entire file into the memory, which may lead to problems. It's usually better if you tell cURL to write directly to a fopen() resource using CURLOPT_FILE.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php#99082

And, you may not be able to get the file extension from the URL (like in the URL above). But you can usually get it from the HTTP headers. Don't rely on it, though.