Importing a file from a URL to my server

Hi there

I need to download a file from a url and be placed in a folder on my server.


Can anyone point me n the direction of what I would need to do with php here. I have tried to search on google but I have little to search on that brings any relevant results.

Any pointers here would be great.

Thanks a lot

 

You can use cURL library in php to download a file, like this:

function getFile($url){
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,TRUE);
  //curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,5);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,180);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_REFERER,'http://www.google.ch/');
  $image=curl_exec($ch);
  if($image==false){
    $m=curl_error(($ch));
    die($m);
  }
  curl_close($ch);
  return $image;
}

Code (markup):

But If you have cURL library available then ....

 

Thanks a lot for the quick answer. I will try this