Question:
First of all, I don't know if this is where I have to ask this question; so I'll count on the moderators to move it if need be.
I have a Linux PHP web hosting account on GoDaddy.
When I have to upload a file, I normally use FTP, either a client or the host's file manager.
However, if the file is one which I have to download from another website, I would prefer if I could "download" it directly to my hosting account; the reason being that I'm in Mauritius and our connection is among the slowest in the world. So I would prefer using the high (I'm just assuming it's higher) bandwidth of the host so that transfers go more quickly.
So, my question is: does anyone of you have a solution (PHP script, Java applet, or anything) that I could use to achieve that?
Thanks in advance,
Yusuf
Solution:1
First of this might be a security risk on your server.
Secondly, here's little untested code:
<?php echo 'get file...'; $data=file_get_contents('http://...target-url...'); if($data===false)die('Failed getting file.'); echo 'saving file...'; $succ=file_put_contents('...target-file...',$data); echo $succ ? 'Success' : 'Failed saving file'; ?> Usable script (put into file "down.php" in your web root):
<?php echo 'get file...'; if(!isset($_REQUEST['from'])die('Fail: Parameter "from" not set.'); if(!isset($_REQUEST['to'])die('Fail: Parameter "to" not set.'); $data=file_get_contents($_REQUEST['from']); if($data===false)die('Failed getting file.'); echo 'saving file...'; $succ=file_put_contents($_REQUEST['to'],$data); echo $succ ? 'Success' : 'Failed saving file'; ?> Usage (run it in from web browser):
http://yoursite.com/down.php?from=http://yourothersite.com/file-content.txt&to=/var/www/public_html/target.txt WARNING: Make sure you remove script after use, it is a grave security issue.
Solution:2
Wget I use it for downloading wordpress straight to a server:
# Download the title page of example.com to a file # named "index.html". wget http://www.example.com/ # Download Wget's source code from the GNU ftp site. wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz The example are from the link above.
Solution:3
Christian trick make better with this code.
You can create a folder like d on your host and protect it with password! Then create a new index.php and put beloow code on it
<?php echo 'Get file...'; $url = $_REQUEST['from']; $filename= preg_replace('/\\?.*/', '', basename($url)); $to ='dl/'.$filename; $data=file_get_contents($_REQUEST['from']); if($data===false)die('Failed getting file.'); echo "<br/>".'Saving file...'; $succ=file_put_contents($to,$data); echo $succ ? "<br/>".'Success' : "<br/>".'Failed saving file'; ?> finally create a folder named dl to store downloaded files.
Usage (run it in from web browser):
http://yoursite.com/d/?from=http://yourothersite.com/file.txt Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on toontricks1994@gmail.com
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