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« on: Dec 13, 2006, 03:00:07 PM »
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?
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 13, 2006, 03:04:46 PM »
The best is to use cURL library.

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« Reply #2 on: Dec 13, 2006, 03:16:25 PM »
BTW should I write a tutorial specific for file downloads?
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« Reply #3 on: Dec 13, 2006, 03:34:45 PM »
That could come in handy...
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« Reply #4 on: Dec 13, 2006, 05:11:09 PM »
Ok, I will just for you Wink
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« Reply #5 on: Dec 13, 2006, 05:45:29 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: Dec 13, 2006, 05:55:39 PM »
Quote from: Nikolas on Dec 13, 2006, 05:45:29 PM
And here you are Smiley

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great Tutorial thanks, didn't used curl this way before
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« Reply #7 on: Dec 13, 2006, 06:00:43 PM »
I am glad you like it Smiley

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.... Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: Dec 13, 2006, 08:06:42 PM »
a great little code snippet. Thanks!
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