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

With validations...

Validate if file exists first:

function doesUrlExists($url) {
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
    curl_exec($ch);
    $code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

    if($code == 200){
        $status = true;
    }else{
        $status = false;
    }
    curl_close($ch);
    return $status;
}

And then put file content (with laravel storage class):

 if(!doesUrlExists($url_file)) {
     die('The remote file is not accessible. Please check the URL.');
 }

 Storage::disk('local')
          ->put($file_destintation, fopen($url_file, 'r'));