[RESOLVED] upload a file (not using a form)

[chriskabi]

hello!

I want help, how to upload a file to a folder in my webserver without a user selects the file from a web form.

The file name actually is in my database. But to make it simpler suppose I want to download in my server this file "http://www.website.com/image.jpg"

I think move_uploaded_file is not working in my case. Any suggestions?

[watdaflip]

So are you talking about how to download a file from your server to your local machine? If so that just requires either modifying the server behavior for a certain file types you want to allow downloading, or forcing the download through headers.

If you are talking about uploading a file from a local machine to your server without a form, this can't be done without the use of something like flash, or directly uploading it with a FTP.

[chriskabi]

thank you for your reply

I talk about how to save a file (image) from another website (I kno the image link/url) to my server

my fault, the correct expression is
The file name actually is in my database. But to make it simpler suppose I want to upload in my server this file "http://www.website.com/image.jpg"

The code will be in a cron-job php file

[bradgrafelman]

There is no "uploading" to be done in what you've described so far. Furthermore, "http://www.website.com/image.jpg" is a URL, not a file path.

If you want to download the image returned via that URL, simply use [man]file_get_contents/man.

[chriskabi]

ok, done!
thank you