Uploading a file to my Linux PHP web host through a URL

Question

Hi,

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.