Download Remote File to Server with PHP

Question

I\'ve been looking all over the place for the last two days and trying everything and still can\'t get anything to work. I feel like this should be a relatively simple thin

Answer 1

Use curl to download file from remote server like below.

$url = "http://path/toserver/filename";
$destination = "uploads/filename";    
$fp = fopen ($destination, 'w+');
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );

  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10 );
  curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp );
  curl_exec( $ch );
  curl_close( $ch );
  fclose( $fp );

reference http://www.tricksofit.com/2014/04/download-file-from-remote-server-in-php