Downloading a large file using curl
Find below code if you want to download the contents of the specified URL also want to saves it to a file.
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
/**
* Set the URL of the page or file to download.
*/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&topic=t&output=rss');
$fp = fopen('rss.xml', 'w+');
/**
* Ask cURL to write the contents to a file
*/
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>
If you want to downloads file from the FTP server you can use php FTP extension. Please find below code:
<?php
$SERVER_ADDRESS="";
$SERVER_USERNAME="";
$SERVER_PASSWORD="";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($SERVER_ADDRESS);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $SERVER_USERNAME, $SERVER_PASSWORD);
$server_file="test.pdf" //FTP server file path
$local_file = "new.pdf"; //Local server file path
##----- DOWNLOAD $SERVER_FILE AND SAVE TO $LOCAL_FILE--------##
if (ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_BINARY)) {
echo "Successfully written to $local_file\n";
} else {
echo "There was a problem\n";
}
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
I use this handy function:
By downloading it with a 4094 byte step it will not full your memory
function download($file_source, $file_target) {
$rh = fopen($file_source, 'rb');
$wh = fopen($file_target, 'w+b');
if (!$rh || !$wh) {
return false;
}
while (!feof($rh)) {
if (fwrite($wh, fread($rh, 4096)) === FALSE) {
return false;
}
echo ' ';
flush();
}
fclose($rh);
fclose($wh);
return true;
}
Usage:
$result = download('http://url','path/local/file');
You can then check if everything is ok with:
if (!$result)
throw new Exception('Download error...');
when curl
is used to download a large file then CURLOPT_TIMEOUT
is the main option you have to set for.
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER
has to be true in case you are getting file like pdf/csv/image etc.
You may find the further detail over here(correct url) Curl Doc
From that page:
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 300); //set timeout to 5 mins
curl_setopt($request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // true to get the output as string otherwise false
<?php
set_time_limit(0);
//This is the file where we save the information
$fp = fopen (dirname(__FILE__) . '/localfile.tmp', 'w+');
//Here is the file we are downloading, replace spaces with %20
$ch = curl_init(str_replace(" ","%20",$url));
// make sure to set timeout to a high enough value
// if this is too low the download will be interrupted
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 600);
// write curl response to file
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
// get curl response
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>