I want to download a remote file and put it in my server directory with the same name the original has. I tried to use file_get_contents($url)
.
Problem is that the filename isn't included in $url
, it is like: www.domain.com?download=1726
. This URL give me, e.g.: myfile.exe
, so I want to use file_put_contents('mydir/myfile.exe');
.
How could I retrieve the filename? I tried get_headers()
before downloading, but I only have file size, modification date and other information, the filename is missing.
I solved it another way. I found that if there is no content-disposition in url headers, then filename exists in URL. So, this code works with any kind of URL's (no cURL needed):
$url = "http://www.example.com/download.php?id=123";
// $url = "http://www.example.com/myfile.exe?par1=xxx";
$content = get_headers($url,1);
$content = array_change_key_case($content, CASE_LOWER);
// by header
if ($content['content-disposition']) {
$tmp_name = explode('=', $content['content-disposition']);
if ($tmp_name[1]) $realfilename = trim($tmp_name[1],'";\'');
} else
// by URL Basename
{
$stripped_url = preg_replace('/\\?.*/', '', $url);
$realfilename = basename($stripped_url);
}
It works! :)