PHP cURL to many urls - php

Question

I have php a code and can't understand why the php script creates only 4 files, but without the data. If I use curl only for one url without foreach loop all will be ok. Any thoughts?
$years = array('2012', '2013', '2014', '2015');
foreach($years as $year)
{
$url = "http://lpo.dt.navy.mil/data/DM/Environmental_Data_Deep_Moor_{$year}.txt";
$fp = fopen(base_path() . "/database/rawdata/{$year}.txt", 'w');
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_FILE => $fp,
CURLOPT_VERBOSE => 1,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_FAILONERROR => 1
));
curl_exec($curl);
if (!curl_errno($curl))
{
$info = curl_getinfo($curl);
Log::info("File created {$year}.txt");
Log::notice("Evaluation of this script was {$info['total_time']} seconds!");
}
else
{
Log::error("cURL ERROR " . curl_error($curl));
}
curl_close($curl);
fclose($fp);
}

Answer 1

See joeterranova's comment on the PHP site:
It appears that setting CURLOPT_FILE before setting
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER doesn't work, presumably because
CURLOPT_FILE depends on CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER being set
.
Therefore you should change your curl_setopt_array to the following:
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_FILE => $fp,
CURLOPT_VERBOSE => 1,
CURLOPT_FAILONERROR => 1
));