How to remotely upload a file using php to google drive - php

Question

I have tried to use file_get_contents() and also curl to do this .. But both of these functions download the file temporarily to my pc and then upload to drive ...
Is there any way in which i can directly upload file from the url to my drive ?
Here is one code i tried :
$file = new Google_DriveFile();
$file->setTitle('My app');
$file->setDescription('Application');
$file->setMimeType('application/exe');
$url = "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.exe";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec ($ch); // execute
curl_close ($ch); // close curl handle
$createdFile = $service->files->insert($file, array('data' => $data,'mimeType' => 'application/exe',));
Here is another one :
$file = new Google_DriveFile();
$file->setTitle('My app');
$file->setDescription('Application');
$file->setMimeType('application/exe');
$url = "http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.exe";
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$createdFile = $service->files->insert($file, array('data' => $data,'mimeType' => 'application/exe',));
Both of these codes are downloading the files first to my pc ... then they start uploading

Answer 1

When you pass a URL in stead of a local file path to file_get_contents() or curl_init(), PHP will automatically attempt to download the file that the URL points to.
All you need to do to prevent this is to change the value of $url to a local file path:
$url = '/tmp/somefile.txt'; // *nix
$url = 'c:/somefile.txt'; // Windows