download from url

[cronThis]

Can anyone help?  I'm integrating an upload system into a website i'm building, but instead of uploading the file from the users hard drive, i'm trying to create a script that fetches the file from a url, but I keep running into roadblocks when trying to find a way to do this.  Files will be saved directly to the server.

[rhodesa]

http://us3.php.net/copy

 

<?php
copy($_POST['url'],'uploads/'.basename($_POST['url']));
?>

 

Obviously, the above is just an example. Any files being copied to your server should be thoroughly checked before they are put there. Also, the above will overwrite the file if it already exists.

 

[cronThis]

Thanks, I'm going to give that a try.