catching a proper file from remote server please help..

[abhicool1]

I am having a problem to read file from remote url.
at this stage I have successfully grabbed a video from YouTube and link which is generated is.
$link =
// output http://v14.lscache2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?ip=0.0.0.0&sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Calgorit hm%2Cburst%2Cfactor&fexp=901421%2C900033%2C903105&algor... (http://www.webmasterworld.com/redirect.cgi?f=88&d=4062281&url=http://v14.lscache2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?ip=0.0.0.0&sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Calgorit hm%2Cburst%2Cfactor&fexp=901421%2C900033%2C903105&algor...)

which offers a file to download video.flv


now my problem is i want to save this file to localhost.
I have tried using



$file1 = file("$link?$QUERY_STRING");
$file1 = @implode("", $file1);
// echo "$file1";



echo "$file1"; gives raw data of file


FLV ��� ���� � 8.....


Now, I want to save it on my local drive so that i can convert it by using FFMPEG


I have tried..
$fh = fopen("testvideo.flv", "w");
fwrite($fh, $file1);
fclose($fh);


but unable to write data into file. File remains blank after execuation of code.
Please help me.

[matchett808]

try passing the downloading to a bash file to do a wget?

!#/bin/bash
wget $1

is all you really need (check the first line though, i cant remember wether the # or the ! comes first! lol)

[Hellkeepa]

HELLo!

First of all, "file ()" and "implode ()" is unnecessary, should have used "file_get_contents ()" instead. Even better would have been to use cURL or similar, since the file methods are often blocked from doing HTTP calls.
Similarly "file_put_contents ()" will open a (new) file, and write the data to it, before closing it again. Doing away with two lines of code. Do make sure that you have write-permissions to the folder you're trying to save the files to though, as I suspect this is the culprit. You don't do any testing on this, nor on whether or not the write was successful, after all.

Happy codin'!