How to Download file or web page using PHP cURL and save it to file

The below PHP code is a slight variation of the above code. It not only downloads the contents of the specified URL but also saves it to a file.

/**
	* Initialize the cURL session
	*/
	$ch = curl_init();
	/**
	* Set the URL of the page or file to download.
	*/
	curl_setopt($ch,  CURLOPT _URL, ‘http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&topic=t& output=rss’);
	/**
	* Ask cURL to return the contents in a variable instead of simply echoing them to the browser.
	*/
	curl_setopt($ch,  CURLOPT _RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	/**
	* Execute the cURL session
	*/
	$contents = curl_exec ($ch);
	/**
	* Close cURL session
	*/
	curl_close ($ch);

Here we have used another of the cURL options, CURLOPT_FILE. Obtain a file handler by creating a new file or opening an existing one and then pass this file handler to the curl_set_opt function.

cURL will now write the contents to a file as it downloads a web page or file.