Download file from server to server

[killuagdt]

I am currently using PHP 5.3.2 with IIS 7.5. I have just started learning PHP, and I am wondering how I can make a server to server download through PHP? For example I have a direct link like www.abc.com/folder/123.doc which link directly to the file 123.doc. I want to make my server to download the file above to my server to a directories like: /downloaded/123.doc. So could you please tell me how to do it? Thank you very much for your help.

[FuThAr]

you can look at this example

 

$fp = fopen (dirname(__FILE__) . '/downloaded/my_file', 'w+');
$ch = curl_init('http://server.where.interesting/file.resides.com/123.doc');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 40);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp)

 

 

pay attention to the curl_setopt() http://gt.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

 

optionally, at the begin of the script you can set

 

set_time_limit(0); // to prevent timeout for big file download
ini_set('display_errors',true);//useful for debug purposes

[trq]

Providing url wrappers are enabled copy will suffice.

[killuagdt]

@FuThAr: Thank you very much for your codes. I am currently at work so I could not check them but I will try as soon as possible. But I have a small question, is there any limit for the download like file size?

 

Providing url wrappers are enabled copy will suffice.

I am new to PHP so could you please be more detailed? . Thank you very much.

 

 

By the way, after googling for a while, I found that some people use fopen/fsockopen with fgets/fwrite for downloading from server to server. I have paid some time for the documentations but simply could not get the idea and could not understand some examples. So if anyone has time, could you please tell me a way to get file with fopen (as I search, fsockopen seems to be somewhat more difficult)? Is there any advantage of using fopen/fsockopen/curl? Your helps are greatly appreciated.

[killuagdt]

UPDATE:

 

I have tried the code of FuThar and received good result for small file. But for big file (like over 100Mb), the script stop when the file has just been downloaded for more than 1Mb (maybe due to my slow internet connection, but the script runs for less than 1 minute). There is no error statement instead of Notice: Use of undefined constant __FILE_ - assumed '__FILE_'. So I am looking for help to fix this problem:D. Thank you very much in advance.

 

PS: I have already included

set_time_limit(0); 
ini_set('display_errors',true);

at the beginning of the script.

[killuagdt]

I am sorry to double post but somehow I couldn't see the edit button anymore So if the mods look here, please merge my posts and accept my apology.

 

I could get over the php limit but now I am receiving Fast CGI process exceeded configured activity timeout error. So could anyone please show me a way to change the timeout? I am using IIS 7 on Windows 7.

 

PS: fcgiext.ini could not be found in my windows folder, so I think I can not change timeout through changing fcgiext.ini