Downloading & saving files to disk

Question

I want to download some files programatically from a remote server.

If you can write the code-snippet in VB, VB.NET, Java, or PHP I can try to solve the rest by myself.

Sample file address:

www.example.com/file1.pdf
www.example.com/file2.pdf
www.example.com/file%20n-1.pdf

It will be helpful if you give solutions to this problem in PHP so I can test in WAMP.

[PHP snippet](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/728458/best-way-to-download-a-file-in-php) — Searock, Dec 14 '11 at 07:28
[VB 6.0 Snippet](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1976152/download-file-vb6) — Searock, Dec 14 '11 at 07:45
Adding some source code, or what you have tried would be better. Check StackOverflow FAQ http://stackoverflow.com/faq#questions — mohdajami, Dec 14 '11 at 07:55
possible duplicate of [How to use HttpWebRequest to download file](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6778055/how-to-use-httpwebrequest-to-download-file) — George Stocker, Dec 14 '11 at 16:22

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '11 at 07:16

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In VB.NET, WebClient makes this trivial:

new WebClient().DownloadFile(url, filename)

answered Dec 14 '11 at 07:16

Jon Skeet

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a little bit code snippet will be appreciated !! – Sourav Dec 14 '11 at 07:25
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@Sourav: That *is* a code snippet - all you need are the `url` and `filename` variables, and `WebClient` will do the rest. – Jon Skeet Dec 14 '11 at 07:26

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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In Java, you may use java.net.URL and java.net.URLConnection class methods.

SO Thread - How to download and save a file from internet using Java.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Dec 14 '11 at 07:17

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a little bit code snippet will be appreciated. – Sourav Dec 14 '11 at 07:23

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '11 at 07:40

PHP example

<?php
$files = array('file1.pdf', 'file2.pdf', 'filen.pdf');

$remoteBase = 'http://www.site.com/';
$localBase = 'downloads/';

foreach( $files as $f ) {
    $fp = fopen($remoteBase.$f, 'rb');
    if ( !$fp ) {
        echo 'error, ', $f, "\n";
    }
    else {
        file_put_contents($localBase.$f, $fp);
        fclose($fp);
    }
}

Downloading & saving files to disk

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