Download file to server using curl?

[siddscool19]

I want to download file to server using curl how to do that?

Can anyone help me?

[Orio]

Why not using copy() ? Do you have allow_url_fopen disabled and you can't enable it?

 

Orio.

[siddscool19]

Well i want to download from a url like http://user:pass.........

and i don't know about copy() if u can give an example and tell if it works with http://user:pass...

And also i would like to know if its possible with curl

[Orio]

Something like that? I haven't tried it, but it's supposed to work.

 

<?php

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.site.com/pic.jpg');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'username:password')

$data = curl_exec();
curl_close($ch);

?>

 

Orio.

[siddscool19]

<?php
/*
This is usefull when you are downloading big files, as it
will prevent time out of the script :
*/
set_time_limit(0);
ini_set('display_errors',true);//Just in case we get some errors, let us know....
$filename=$_POST["filename"];
$file=$_POST["file"];
$fp = fopen (dirname(__FILE__) . '/'.$filename.'', 'w+');//This is the file where we save the information
$ch = curl_init($file);//Here is the file we are downloading
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 50);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

 

I am using this coding to download the file... It does downloads the file.. The smaller files are perfectly downloaded but the bigger files like of 100mb it does download but their link doesn't work it shows them as they doesn't exist..........

Any way to fix it?

[Orio]

I believe the problem is with:

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 50);

 

You are limiting the amount of time of downloading to 50 seconds. I don't believe you can download 100MB in 50 secs.

If you want it to never timeout, set it to zero (or a very big number at least).

 

Orio