Download Remote File to Server with PHP

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I've been looking all over the place for the last two days and trying everything and still can't get anything to work. I feel like this should be a relatively simple thing to do.

All I want to do is download a remote file from a URL to a directory on my server.

So, for example, if 

$_url = http://www.freewarelovers.com/android/download/temp/1306495040_Number_Blink_1.1.1.apk

and $_dir = /www/downloads/

Then when all is said and done I want 1306495040_Number_Blink_1.1.1.apk in /www/downloads/

I've tried the copy() function, I've tried

file_put_contents("$_dir.$_file_name", file_get_contents($_url));

and get the following error:

file_get_contents(): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

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8 Answers

With validations...

Validate if file exists first:

function doesUrlExists($url) {
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
    curl_exec($ch);
    $code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

    if($code == 200){
        $status = true;
    }else{
        $status = false;
    }
    curl_close($ch);
    return $status;
}

And then put file content (with laravel storage class):

 if(!doesUrlExists($url_file)) {
     die('The remote file is not accessible. Please check the URL.');
 }

 Storage::disk('local')
          ->put($file_destintation, fopen($url_file, 'r'));
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