Download a file using curl in PHP

Here is a quick curl snippet for php, that can download a remote file and save it.

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<?php   set_time_limit(0);   //File to save the contents to $fp = fopen ('files2.tar', 'w+');   $url = "http://localhost/files.tar";   //Here is the file we are downloading, replace spaces with %20 $ch = curl_init(str_replace(" ","%20",$url));   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 50);   //give curl the file pointer so that it can write to it curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);   $data = curl_exec($ch);//get curl response   //done curl_close($ch);

The CURLOPT_FILE option takes a file resources and writes the content of the url to that file resource/handle. Also set the script time limit to something large so that the script does not end when downloading large files.