How to make curl command into php?

Question

I have this curl command

curl -L -O -o ' .$path.' -J "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id='.$id.'"

How would I transform this into php curl request keeping in mind all the flags. what are the equivalents in php

Here is what I have so far

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id='.$id.'");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}

What is the issue with what you got? You've already covered the `-L` flag by setting `CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION`. The other flags are quite irrelevant since they are letting curl know what to do with the response (save it to file etc), which you don't do in PHP. Just take the result and do what you want with it instead. — M. Eriksson, Jul 27 '17 at 08:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · 2017-07-27T08:00:04.313

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$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=123"]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close ($ch);

edited Jul 27 '17 at 08:00

answered Jul 27 '17 at 07:53

Why are you using the URL as a key for `$_ENV`? – M. Eriksson Jul 27 '17 at 07:54
so how do I move that file to another location after upload? – Andrew Christopher Jul 27 '17 at 07:58
is the resulting file inside $result variable? – Andrew Christopher Jul 27 '17 at 07:59
you can move it using file_put_contents. result will be in $result – Jul 27 '17 at 08:01
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Is it wise to have curl ignore the certificate? That should be the last option if all other tries to retrieve your url fail because of the cert. settings – Ivo P Jul 27 '17 at 08:02

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '17 at 07:59

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mainly the save action (-o $path) is missing:

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id='.$id.'");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}

file_put_contents($path, $result);
?>

answered Jul 27 '17 at 07:59

Ivo P

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What about the flag for redirection, when I retrieve the file its says 404, I just need to understand the php equivalent for those exact flags – Andrew Christopher Jul 27 '17 at 08:07
404 = not found. Redirection http headers are in the 300 range – Ivo P Jul 27 '17 at 08:42

How to make curl command into php?

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