Download file using curl

[admin]

Here is a php function to download files from remote server using curl.

$remote is url of source file.
$local is path where you need the file saved after download.

function curl_download($remote, $local)    {
    $cp = curl_init($remote);
    $fp = fopen($local, "w");
    
    curl_setopt($cp, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
    curl_setopt($cp, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    
    curl_exec($cp);
    curl_close($cp);
    fclose($fp);    

} 

[grace55]

PDF_open_file

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PECL pdflib:1.0-2.1.3)
PDF_open_file — Create PDF file [deprecated]

Description.

bool PDF_open_file ( resource $p , string $filename )


Creates a new PDF file using the supplied file name. Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
This function is deprecated since PDFlib version 6, use PDF_begin_document() instead.

[tuluvaguy]

A nice information. Will add this in my wallet. I used to hunt for a third part application to avail this function. :D

[bapple]

It would be great if you an explanation about fopen function.