Downloading remote files

[k9underdog]

/***
 * Fazer download da última versão
 */
$filename = time();
$country_ip_csv_fd = fopen('http://ip-to-country.directi.com/downloads/ip-to-country.csv.zip', 'rb');
if(!$country_ip_csv_fd) die('ERRO: Não consegui ligar-me ao servidor remoto');
$country_ip_csv_data = "";
while(!feof($country_ip_csv_fd)) $country_ip_csv_data .= fread($country_ip_csv_fd, 1024);
fclose($country_ip_csv_fd);

/***
 * Escrever para um ficheiro ZIP localmente
 */
$country_ip_csv_file = fopen($filename, 'wb');
if(!$country_ip_csv_file) die('ERRO: Não consegui abrir o ficheiro para escrita');
fwrite($country_ip_csv_file, $country_ip_csv_data, sizeof($country_ip_csv_data));
fclose($country_ip_csv_file);

What's wrong with my code? It only reads 1kb of code. I think it has to do with the feof() command.

Thanks in advance 🙂

[AstroTeg]

Have you looked at the data it attempted to download? Sometimes it puts the error message in there which can be handy. Otherwise, at first glance, the code appears ok.

[jackinva]

That looks fine in my opinion as well. But I decided to go look at the PHP on-line documentation for fread and ran across a warning when reading files remotely from a network or stream that recommends the following coding scheme:

<?php
$handle = fopen ("http://www.example.com/", "rb");
$contents = "";
do {
$data = fread($handle, 8192);
if (strlen($data) == 0) {
break;
}
$contents .= $data;
} while(true);
fclose ($handle);
?>

See the documentation at

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php
Hope this is helpful,
Jack

[k9underdog]

Thanks a lot! 😃