how to Download a file from FTP to H.D.?

Anon

ok, i am using php to get connect to a ftp server, and in the ftp server, i want to download a file and save it to my H.D. , but if i use the ftp_get() function, the file will be saved at my PHP hosting service folder, and not my H.D.
even if i tell the functin to save at : c:\files\x.wav or c:\file\x.wav or c:/files/x.wav ... The function saves it to my remote server folder, named as c:\files\x.wav

here is my code:

$ftpStream = ftp_connect("ftp.SERVER.com");
$loginResult = ftp_login($ftpStream, "USERNAME", "SENHA");
if ($loginResult) {

$dir = ftp_chdir($ftpStream, "musicas/mp3");
$file = ftp_pasv($ftpStream,true) ;

$file = ftp_get($ftpStream, $where, "complete.wav", FTP_BINARY);
echo $file;

}
ftp_quit($ftpStream);

mistcat

One solution would be to:

ftp to the server, get your file, put it in a variable on the php server, then do a header with the correct content type to your browser which will prompt for a save request and send the file to yourself that way.

Option 2:
Have an intermediate step where you make a link to the temporary file on the server you can click on to download the file, and then have a clean up function to delete the temporary file after you've grabbed it.

Anon

Thanks man...

One more thing, the files are quite big, 3 megabytes each, when my PHP script runs the ftp_get function , the function takes forever to get at my remote server... is there a way to set up a PHP script to download the file later, and them send a e-mail to the user, telling him the place where he can find the file?

something like a programed download, that the client dont need to wait for the file to be downloaded to the server and them download the file...