WGET + Curl Streaming

PHP
1

Doh can’t edit title it seems on these forums. Correct Title: WGET + Curl Streaming.

I’m using the following function to try and grab files from remote hosts:

function wGET_file($url, $path) {
    $fp = fopen($path, 'w');
 
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
 
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
 
    curl_close($ch);
    fclose($fp);
}

However, the file is always an empty file with 0 size. The link is correct and everything just the file is always empty.

Any ideas why?

Thanks,
Desk_man

2

This appears to work fine, it needs some work though. :slight_smile:


<?php
error_reporting(-1);
ini_set('display_errors', true);

function curl_save_file($url, $file){
  $fp = fopen($file, 'w');
  $ch = curl_init($url);
  curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  => true,
    CURLOPT_FILE            => $fp
  ));
  curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  fclose($fp);
}
3

Thanks for your help.

I just gave it a quick try but i’m having the same issue with the file being empty and 0 bytes in size.

Now i looked alittle further and tried a file on a different server and it worked. Strange but hazar!

Much appreciated.

4

If you have the correct permissions you could always just use wget, or get PHP to do it for you with exec(), or use cron to call wget. I guess you are aware of it seeing as how you named your function :wink: but maybe others aren’t.