[krove]

Ok, I'm fairly familiar with php, etc, but I am for the first time trying to get it to download a file for me. Using the example found in the php manual on http://www.php.net, this is what I'm using:

[php]<?php
$ch = curl_init ("http://www.apple.com/");
$fp = fopen ("apple_homepage.txt", "w");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
fclose ($fp);
?>[/php]

Unfortunately, everytime I run this under apache (os x 10.2 default version, php 4.2.3), I don't get a file called apple_homepage.txt as expected, but rather the apple.com homepage outputted to the browser. Can anyone tell me why I'm not getting the expected result?

I even tried just running the following without success (no file created):
[php]<?php
$a = `curl http://www.apple.com -o apple_homepage.txt`;
echo 'something should have happened';
?>[/php]

Unfortunately, nothing happened here either. Why?

[Simon Mundy]

It looks fine... is the directory writable? (i.e. had a 'chmod 777' on it?) If it isn't, perhaps the cURL function gives up trying to write the file and just defaults the output to the browser?

I can't see the 2nd example doing anything - all you've done is set a variable! Is there a line of code missing there?

[krove]

You're right...I thought the permissions were correct, but after chmod 777 the directory (sub-directory inside /Library/WebServer/Documents) it worked as expected.

As for the second code not actually doing anything: it uses the back-tick operator (not single quotes), which is the same as the shell_exec() function.

Thanks again!