PHP Forum

**shynx** · 10-17-2007, 08:29 PM

Hey Guys,

I'm hoping to have a form where someone can enter a url to download a file only my net connection has access to, then it will use php/wget/curl to download that file and save it on the webserver.

E.g, they enter www.blah.com/pic.jpg and it will download and save to /home/www/pics/pic.jpg.

Can someone possibly help me code this as I'm a complete noob. So far I've got one form that gets their information they are after, which then loads up a second page which is meant to download the file but not working very well.

Help Please

**JeremyMiller** · 10-18-2007, 01:40 AM

Maybe sharing the code you have which has a problem would be helpful?

**shynx** · 10-18-2007, 03:40 AM

Well yes, I can see how that would work. I can download the file but I can't make it save as the original filename. Must be something easy I am missing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by br.html

<form action="wget.php" method="POST">
<font face="arial" size=3 color="336666">Enter Battlerecorder file here: <input type="text" name="brfile">
<input type="submit" value="Download">
</form>

Quote:

Originally Posted by wget.php

<html>
<head>
<title>A BASIC HTML FORM</title>
<?PHP
$brfile = $_POST['brfile'];
print ($brfile);
?>

</head>

<?
file_put_contents('/opt/lampp/htdocs/bf2/battlerecorder/($brfile)',
file_get_contents($brfile));
?>

**mtishetsky** · 10-18-2007, 03:40 AM

1. Make a form with two fields: URL and local file name
2. When a form is submitted do exec("wget -O{$local_file_name} \"{$url}\" > /dev/null &") to execute wget in background.

**mtishetsky** · 10-18-2007, 03:42 AM

Or "wget -o $url" to keep the original file name. I recommend you not to use file_get_contents for this because the user can give you url to some large file which will take more time to download than the script is executed.

**shynx** · 10-18-2007, 04:12 AM

<html>
<head>
<title>A BASIC HTML FORM</title>
<?PHP
$brfile = $_POST['brfile'];
$localfile = $_POST['localfile'];
print ($brfile);
?>

</head>
<?php
do exec("wget -O{$localfile} \"{$brfile}\" > /dev/null &")
?>

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting T_WHILE in wget.php on line 18

Sorry guys, thats the error I get. Remember, complete noob. I also added localfile to br.html to get that part working. Also tried it using wget -o and still didn't work.

**solomongaby** · 10-18-2007, 04:37 AM

do exec("wget -O{$localfile} \"{$brfile}\" > /dev/null &");

notice the ; at the end

**shynx** · 10-18-2007, 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by solomongaby

do exec("wget -O{$localfile} \"{$brfile}\" > /dev/null &");

notice the ; at the end

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting T_WHILE in wget.php on line 17

Weird

**solomongaby** · 10-18-2007, 07:20 AM

sorry my bad ... remove the "do" :
exec("wget -O{$localfile} \"{$brfile}\" > /dev/null &");

**shynx** · 08:30 AM

Thats awesome, thanks guys. You guys rock... thanks very much for help

**shynx** · 08:58 AM

How do you save it to a particular place?
I thought this would work...

exec("wget -O /tmp/{$brfile} \"{$localfile}\" > /dev/null &");

but nothing is saved, though no errors in script. Unless its not downloading any files at all? I can't find any files otherwise :/

**solomongaby** · 10-18-2007, 09:56 AM

iy should be saved in the account root ... but remove the /tmp thing