I need a little help with a script i am writing. My current server disables allow_url_fopen so I can't copy files from URLs, so I am forced to use cURL, which i hardly have a clue how to use.

Here's what I have:

PHP Code:

function get_file($file)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.mysite.com/images/");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"@" . $file);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    $postResult = curl_exec($ch);

    if (curl_errno($ch))
    {
        print curl_error($ch);
    }
    curl_close($ch);
} 


and:

PHP Code:

if(!get_file($newURL))
            {
                print("Not copied");
            } 


I always get my error message "Not Copied". Please help me get it to work!
Thanks, bytes

Nope, don't gonna work that way.
First, your function don't return anything, so get_file() always see it like a FALSE being returned.

Second, the CURLOPT_POST, 1 line in your function says you want to post datas to the url you specified, but you don't give any data.
If you want to get data, you don't do a CURLOPT_POST.

This is something I use actually in my fetchall_library:

PHP Code:

function getPage($url="http://www.example.com/"){
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,15);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_REFERER,'http://www.google.ch/');
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30);
    $html=curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $html;
} 


I use it to fetch a web page HTML content.
Simply point it to a file, and the function will return you the content of that downloaded file.
Save it anywhere, and you'll be set.

So if my goal is to copy it to that directory;

http://www.mysite.com/images/

PHP Code:

function get_file($url)
{
    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT,TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,15);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_REFERER,'http://www.google.ch/');
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30);

    $html = curl_exec($ch);

    curl_close($ch);

    return $html;
}  

function post_file($file)
{
    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.mysite.com/images/");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$file);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    $result = curl_exec($ch);

    if(curl_errno($ch))
    {
        return false;
    }
    else
    {
        return true;
    }

    curl_close($ch);

}

$myfile = "http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif";

if(!post_file(get_file($myfile)))
{
     print "Error";
} 


...I could do that?

not exactly.
First, the postfield is a list of key + values, like a get request.

key=val&key2=val2

Second, it means that you have to read the image datas first, and to put them into the string. But I haven't done anything like that before, and I suppose that the special characters you might encounter in binary files can get in your way.

Maybe you need to escape them, or to convert the file data to base64, I don't know...

Third, your function still don't return anything, so why do you keep having a if() statement looking for it's return value?
Either remove the if(), or make the post_file() function return TRUE when the if should be true, and FALSE otherwise.

maybe I will just take the personal php.ini approach

is get page a function you created especially for doing this?
What does this function do?

as I said:

I use it to fetch a web page HTML content.

This is what I use getPage() for.