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Download file from URL using PHP
There are many approaches to download a file from a URL some of them are discussed below:
Method 1: Using file_get_contents() function: The file_get_contents() function is used to read a file into a string. This function uses memory mapping techniques which are supported by the server and thus enhances the performances making it a preferred way of reading contents of a file.
Syntax:
file_get_contents($path, $include_path, $context, $start, $max_length)Program 1:
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Method 2: Using PHP Curl: The cURL stands for ‘Client for URLs’, originally with URL spelled in uppercase to make it obvious that it deals with URLs. It is pronounced as ‘see URL’. The cURL project has two products libcurl and curl.
Steps to download file:
- Initialize a file URL to the variable
- Create cURL session
- Declare a variable and store the directory name where downloaded file will save.
- Use basename() function to return the file base name if the file path is provided as a parameter.
- Save the file to the given location.
- Open the saved file location in write string mode
- Set the option for cURL transfer
- Perform cURL session and close cURL session and free all resources
- Close the file
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