Transalte curl command to PHP - php

Question

Hello I have this Linux command that downloads a compressed file
curl -L -O http://www.url.com
The problem is that when I do curl inside PHP I get the HTML code instead of the compressed file.
The PHP code is this:
$url = https://www.example.com
$filePath = '/app/storage/temp/' . $fileName;
$fp = fopen($filePath . 'me', "w");
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
fwrite($fp, $data);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
I can't share the real URL since it contains secret keys.
EDIT
The curl command downloaded the same HTML file as the curl command when I added the -L -O options to the curl command it started working, so the thing here is, how can I add those lines with PHP

Answer 1

Using CURL_FILE means that the output is written to the file handle. You don't need to also use fwrite (especially since without setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, the return from curl_exec is just true or false).
If it is indeed possible to load from this URL, either remove the fwrite, or remove the CURLOPT_FILE and use:
curl_setopt($ch, CUROPT_RETURNTRANFER, TRUE)
That way, the return from curl_exec will be the loaded data.

Answer 2

Create an empty zip file where you want to download your file.
function downloadFile($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
set_time_limit(65);
$rawFileData = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
return curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
$filepath = dirname(__FILE__) . '/testfile.zip';
file_put_contents($filepath, $rawFileData); // Put the downloaded content in the file
return $info;
}
Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Guys sorry for making this hard for you since I couldn't give much information about my doubt.
The problem is solved, I realized that the URL did work with
curl -O -L htttp://www.example.com
and also by the web browser.
This last thing was actually the one that gave me the path:
Open the web browser
Click F12
Paste the URL and hit enter
I came to realize I needed to add some headers the headers were these:
accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8
accept-encoding:gzip, deflate, br
accept-language:en-US,en;q=0.8,es-MX;q=0.6,es;q=0.4
user-agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
After I added these headers to the curl inside PHP the result was the compressed zip file I was searching for.