cURL download to user?

[Cory94bailly]

Hi guys, I'm currently working on a script to download files to a user..

 

What would work best (and FASTEST)? Downloading the file to the server then serving to the user OR having it go straight to the user?

 

I know obviously that it going straight to the user would be best but I'm not sure how to with cURL..

 

 

And yes, it must be with curl because I'm using a login and cookie..

[Cory94bailly]

BUMP

 

:rtfm:

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Quick example, from google. good luck!

 

<?php
        $a=0;
        $timevalue = substr(time(),3,11);
$photoname = $timevalue.$a.'.jpg';
$ch = curl_init("http://www.somedomain.com/images/some%20folder/some%20image%20file.jpg");
$fp = fopen($photoname, "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

[Cory94bailly]

Quick example, from google. good luck!

 

<?php
        $a=0;
        $timevalue = substr(time(),3,11);
$photoname = $timevalue.$a.'.jpg';
$ch = curl_init("http://www.somedomain.com/images/some%20folder/some%20image%20file.jpg");
$fp = fopen($photoname, "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

 

 

I tried this and it does absolutely nothing:

$ab = curl_init($_POST['link']);
$cd = fopen($_POST['link'], "r");
curl_setopt($ab, CURLOPT_FILE, $cd);
curl_setopt($ab, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ab);

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Please read this, and also use Google to get examples.

 

We dont mind but we like code that didn't work after you tried it properly ....

 

http://phpsense.com/php/php-curl-functions.html

[Cory94bailly]

I was wondering if it was possible to have it go STRAIGHT from the server that I'm curl'ing into TO the user...

 

I guess downloading to my server then serving it to the user would work too but not very well because it's slower..

 

Is there any other way to server it straight to the user?

 

I could send them straight to the url but it needs the cookie (i think), because curl is logging in to a form.

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sorry but all php programmers love this code snippet, to force downloads to a user,straight forward and works very good.

 

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,95433.0.html

 

thanks to OBER what a man......

[Cory94bailly]

sorry but all php programmers love this code snippet, to force downloads to a user,straight forward and works very good.

 

 

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,95433.0.html

 

thanks to OBER what a man......

 

I know header location it's just that it needs to be through cURL because I'm logging into an html form and you need the cookie to download the file..

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when you log into this html page, that your using Curl for, you should be getting the results on a page that curl just logged into are YOU?

 

 

[Cory94bailly]

 

 

why because when you log into this html page you using Curl for, you should be getting the results on a page that curl logged into are YOU?

 

Yes, it is showing me the members area but if I do a header redirect, I personally do not have the cookie, the server does.. So it tells me to login.

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can it be done this way then.

 

just saw this on google interesting innit?

 

<?php
$url = 'http://www.tibia.com/logging/url'; // The URL to the accountmanagement page
$f1 = 'accnr'; // Name of field1(ON THE WEBSITE YOU'RE TRYING TO LOGIN ON!)
$f2 = 'pass'; // Name of field2(ON THE WEBSITE YOU'RE TRYING TO LOGIN ON!)
$v1 = $_POST['acc']; // Value of field1(FROM THE WEBSITE YOU'RE TRYING TO LOGIN FROM!)
$v2 = $_POST['pw']; // Value of field2(FROM THE WEBSITE YOU'RE TRYING TO LOGIN FROM!)
$find = 'Welcome to your account'; // String to search for in the page you've logged in on
$postchars = http_build_query( array($f1 => $v1, $f2 => $v2) );

$stream = stream_context_create( array('http' => array('method' => 'POST', 'header'  => 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'content' =>  htmlspecialchars_decode( $postchars ) ) ) ); // Creates an array of the sourcecode, and inputs the values of the field1 and field2

$content = file_get_contents($url, false, $stream); // Gets the sourcecode from the new page that is loaded after the input of the values.

$search = strpos($content, $find); // Search the sourcecode for the specific string in the variable "find"

if($search === false){
echo 'The login seems to be incorrect. Please try again, or check if you have a valid account';
} // If the string wasn't found
else {
echo 'Your account is valid!';
}  // If the string was found 
?>

 

 

stream_context_create (looks promising?

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php

[Cory94bailly]

can it be done this way then.

 

just saw this on google interesting innit?

 

<?php
$url = 'http://www.tibia.com/logging/url'; // The URL to the accountmanagement page
$f1 = 'accnr'; // Name of field1(ON THE WEBSITE YOU'RE TRYING TO LOGIN ON!)
$f2 = 'pass'; // Name of field2(ON THE WEBSITE YOU'RE TRYING TO LOGIN ON!)
$v1 = $_POST['acc']; // Value of field1(FROM THE WEBSITE YOU'RE TRYING TO LOGIN FROM!)
$v2 = $_POST['pw']; // Value of field2(FROM THE WEBSITE YOU'RE TRYING TO LOGIN FROM!)
$find = 'Welcome to your account'; // String to search for in the page you've logged in on
$postchars = http_build_query( array($f1 => $v1, $f2 => $v2) );

$stream = stream_context_create( array('http' => array('method' => 'POST', 'header'  => 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'content' =>  htmlspecialchars_decode( $postchars ) ) ) ); // Creates an array of the sourcecode, and inputs the values of the field1 and field2

$content = file_get_contents($url, false, $stream); // Gets the sourcecode from the new page that is loaded after the input of the values.

$search = strpos($content, $find); // Search the sourcecode for the specific string in the variable "find"

if($search === false){
echo 'The login seems to be incorrect. Please try again, or check if you have a valid account';
} // If the string wasn't found
else {
echo 'Your account is valid!';
}  // If the string was found 
?>

 

 

stream_context_create (looks promising?

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php

 

Even if that does work (Logging in), I don't see how it would allow the user to download the file..