Downloading files

Anon

Could someone please show me an example of a script that will download a file (binary) from a web site to my machine (with the script on my machine). I know how to do it with ftp but not http.

Thanks,

MSBT

Anon

Look at sockets:

http://www.php.net/fsockopen

Example:

$fp = fsockopen("www.domain.com", "80", &$errno, &$error, 30);

// This says connect to www.domain.com on port 80 (http), give a 30 second timeout and store the errors in $errno and $error

fputs($fp, "GET /myzipfile.zip\r\n");

// This will send the http request to get a file off the web server, the /myzipfile.zip is everything in the url after http://www.domain.com, and the \r\n is required.

while (!feof($fp)) {
$buffer.= fgets($fp, 1024);
}

// This says while we still have something coming in, add it to the variable $buffer

fclose($fp);

// All done! Have the file stored in $buffer. From here you may do what you like.

Hope that helps!

Chris King

Anon

I have read that the file size has to be defined (in this case 1024). Is there any way of getting round this, or is there a way of finding out the size automatically through another function?

Thanks,

MSBT

Anon

That would also get the HTTP headers, too.

Anon

The 1024 in that example is not the filesize of the completed file, but the size of the file it reads each time round the loop. So, if the file is 8096 bytes big, the loop would repeat 8 times, adding the read data to the buffer. This would work on a file of any size.