Re: How to bypass (pipe) curl_exec return value directly to a file?

2009/10/12 m.hasibuan <magda.hasibuan@yahoo.co.uk>: > Newbie question. > I need to download a very large amount of xml data from a site using CURL. > > How to bypass (pipe) curl_exec return value directly to a file, without > using memory allocation? > > set_time_limit(0); > $ch = curl_init($siteURL); > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); > $mixed = curl_exec($ch); > > How to set/pipe $mixed as a (disk) file, so that data returned by curl_exec > is directly saved to the disk-file, and not involving memory allocation? > > Thank you. Use the CURLOPT_FILE option to set the output to write to the file handle given by the option's value (which must be a writable file handle). For instance: $ch = curl_init($url); $fp = fopen('/tmp/curl.out', 'w'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); curl_exec($ch); Error checking etc. is of course left up to you. :) Good luck, Torben