PHP cURL, writing to file

Question

I want to try connecting to a remote file and writing the output from there to a local file, this is my function:

function get_remote_file_to_cache()
{

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Answer 1

You need to explicitly write to the file using fwrite, passing it the file handle you created earlier:

if ( $httpCode == 404 ) {
    ...
} else {
    $contents = curl_exec($curl);
    fwrite($fp, $contents);
}

curl_close($curl);
fclose($fp);