I have a function that I'm using to download a file on the server side, the file contents is echoed out at the same time as reading it from the url:
public function Download(){
if(fopen_available()){
$f=fopen($url, 'rb');
while($r=fgets($f)){
echo $r;
}
}
if(curl_available()){
/*???*/
}
return false;
}
I need to put something in that last block for curl, so that fopen isn't enabled on the server then it can use curl instead.
I would prefer not to have curl write to a file if possible, and I don't want to store the whole file in memory either as it could be quite large. If it weren't for those 2 limitations then there wouldn't be a problem.
Is there any way to do this with curl (or other function)?
My reason for doing this is that I'm building a solution that will be used in many different environments (including shared hosting), I know that some hosts will turn off allow_url_fopen and need to find an alternative.