使用curl PHP将文件从远程文件服务器下载到本地计算机

Question

I am trying to create a link to download a file from remote file server to local machine. Right now i am Curl code that i found in stackoverflow. The code works with file path with localhost C drive. But fails with url to remote file. What is wrong with the URL? The commented URL works. Code:

$url  = 'file://v1/cos/EA QA/Test Results/SS/4.6.1/CD06/SS 4.6.1 TestResults.xlsm';
// $url  = 'file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/qrd/test/SS 4.6.1 TestResults.xlsm';
$path = 'C:/test/SS 4.6.1 TestResults.xlsm';     
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
if ($data == FALSE){
    echo "Failed in 1.";
} else {
    $file = fopen($path, "wb");
    fputs($file, $data);
    echo "hi1";
}
fclose($file);

Answer 1

It doesn't work because

file://v1/cos/EA QA/

is not a valid path, looks like a network path. Try uploading the file to a webserver and test it or provide a proper ip address of the network.

Your remote server should have an ip address. Try that like http://192.159.23.2XX/TestResults.xlsm as your URL

Answer 2

ALternatively you can use file_get_contents

   $data = file_get_contents('C:/test/SS 4.6.1 TestResults.xlsm');

Or if you really wanna use CURL you got to have your file in a valid http protocol.

  e.g $url = 'http://192.159.23.2XX//TestResults.xlsm';