Make cURL write data as it receives it

Question

I have the following php code which I found here:

function download_xml()
{
    $url = \'http://tv.sygko.net/tv.xml\';

    $ch = curl_init($url);
    $timeo         


        

Answer 1

There's an option called CURELOPT_FILE that allows you to specify a file handler that curl should write to. I'm pretty sure it will do "right" thing and "write" as it reads, avoiding your memory problem

$file = fopen('test.txt', 'w'); //<--------- file handler
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $file);   //<------- this is your magic line
curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);
fclose($file);