Download and unzip

To fill a site (MySQL database) with content I need to schedule a daily download and unzip of a file. I have found zip functions to use so I can unzip the file, but how do I download the file from a remote server to my website? Or could I just open the remote zip file directly in the unzip script?

The best is to use cURL library.

Check this tutorial for some basic information :

http://www.webdigity.com/index.php?action=tutorial;code=20

BTW should I write a tutorial specific for file downloads?

That could come in handy...

Ok, I will just for you ;)

And here you are :)

how to download a file with cURL and php

great Tutorial thanks, didn't used curl this way before

I am glad you like it :)

I wrote this code when I bought a huge script and couldn't download the whole zips to my pc and then upload them to the server.... :)

a great little code snippet. Thanks!