downloading a zip through php script

[mattykewl]

Can someone help me, i need to download a zip file off the server using php and save it to a certain destination on another server, i can do this in a few lines of code right?

also, how can i go about extracting the zip files after they've downloaded, again using solely php code, i dont want to use cron or wget must be php only. thanks in advance

[genericnumber1]

You can download a file using file_get_contents() and fopen() + fwrite() to paste the contents into a new file

as for unzipping you'll wanna take a look at the zip functions... http://www.php.net/zip

[mattykewl]

Thanks for the reply, i should if mentioned ive been trying these but ive not had any luck on the syntax side, can you provide me an example?

[genericnumber1]

I'm not sure on the zip functions, I've never looked into them as of yet... downloading the file is simple

[code=php:0]
$copyFrom = "http://www.websitetocopyfrom.com/";
$pasteTo = "/location/to/paste/to/";

$contents = file_get_contents($copyFrom);

$handle = fopen($pasteTo, 'w');
if ( !fwrite($handle, $contents) ) {
    echo 'Copy unsuccessful.';
} else {
    echo 'Success!';
}
[/code]

[mattykewl]

hmm thanks, somethings happening, it says successful but nothing appears to the dir it saves at :|

[genericnumber1]

well you have to specify a file name, I should have been more exact....

[code=php:0]
$pasteTo = "/location/to/paste/to.zip";
[/code]

[mattykewl]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!