Simple question..

[Michdd]

This is just a simple question, something that I never bothered learning because I never needed to know it before...

 

How do I save a file to my server using a php script?

[ober]

That's a very vague question.  Are you creating the file?  Is the file being uploaded?  Is the file being passed to the server via a different process?

 

Please be more specific.

[Michdd]

That's a very vague question.  Are you creating the file?  Is the file being uploaded?  Is the file being passed to the server via a different process?

 

Please be more specific.

Sorry, I mean say I have a variable $url = "http://site.com/picture.png"; How would I save that file? Basically saving a file from an outside source.

[genericnumber1]

There are a lot of ways, as stated by the previous poster, depending on what you're saving. As for simple plain text the simplest would be..

 

<?php
$content = "test content";
file_put_contents('myfile.txt', $content);

 

For less trivial text examples (eg. to save memory, since file_put_contents requires the full text to be loaded into memory) look into the fopen()/fwrite()/fclose() functions in the manual. ( http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php )

[ober]

I would say it's going to fail about 50% of the time because people will block you via their servers.

 

Otherwise, you can start reading here:

 

http://br.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php

[Michdd]

Well I'm actually going to be taking 1 type of file from 1 server. Images, from a server that I know will allow it. So would file_put_contents() be the best way for this? (since it's only images)

[ober]

file_put_contents would probably be your best bet then.