All you have to do to download a file to your server is by following the solutions provided below.
solution 1
Since PHP 5.1.0, file_put_contents() supports writing piece-by-piece by passing a stream-handle as the $data parameter:
file_put_contents("Tmpfile.zip", fopen("http://someurl/file.zip", 'r'));solution 2
private function downloadFile($url, $path)
{
$newfname = $path;
$file = fopen ($url, 'rb');
if ($file) {
$newf = fopen ($newfname, 'wb');
if ($newf) {
while(!feof($file)) {
fwrite($newf, fread($file, 1024 * 8), 1024 * 8);
}
}
}
if ($file) {
fclose($file);
}
if ($newf) {
fclose($newf);
}
}
