How download big file using PHP (low memory usage)

Question

I have to download big file (1xx MB) using PHP.

How can i download this without wasting memory (RAM) for temporary file ?

When i use

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Answer 1

you can shell out to a wget using exec() this will result in the lowest memory usage.

You can also try using fopen() and fread() and fwrite(). That way you onlly download x bytes into memory at a time.