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neogeek on 06/29/06


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Fetch Remote File

 / Published in: PHP
 

This simple function allows you to fetch files from other web sites in PHP4 without needing to install any extensions for PHP.

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  1. if (!function_exists('fetch_remote_file')) {
  2.  
  3.    function fetch_remote_file($file) {
  4.  
  5.       $path = parse_url($file);
  6.  
  7.       $fs = @fsockopen($path['host'], 80);
  8.  
  9.       if ($fs) {
  10.  
  11.          $header  = 'GET ' . $file . ' HTTP/1.0' . lnbr;
  12.          $header .= 'Host: ' . $path['host'] . str_repeat(lnbr, 2);
  13.  
  14.          fwrite($fs, $header);
  15.  
  16.          $buffer = '';
  17.  
  18.          while ($tmp = fread($fs, 1024)) { $buffer .= $tmp; }
  19.  
  20.          $matches = Array();
  21.  
  22.          preg_match('/Content-Length: ([0-9]+)/', $buffer, $matches);
  23.  
  24.          return substr($buffer, -@$matches[1]);
  25.  
  26.       } else { return false; }
  27.  
  28.    }
  29.  
  30. }

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