Copying file gives 0kb file

[KeredDrahcir]

I'm trying to copy a file from a remote location and the file copies across but has a size of 0kb. Can anyone suggest why this is happening?

<?php
  function copyFile($url,$dirname)
  {
    @$file = fopen ($url, "rb");
    if (!$file)
    {
      echo"<font color=red>Failed to copy $url!</font><br/>";
      return false;
    }
    else
    {
      $filename = basename($url);
      $fc = fopen($dirname."$filename", "wb");
      while (!feof ($file))
      {
        $line = fread ($file, 1028);
        fwrite($fc,$line);
      }
      fclose($fc);
      echo "<font color=blue>File $url saved to PC!</font><br/>";
      return true;
    }
  }
?>
 
<?php
  $filedir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/include/";
  copyFile("http://remote location.co.uk/include/file.php",$filedir);
?>

[dlite922]

Have you done any debugging?

out put $line in your while loop, see if you can at least determine that is content to be written.

I don't see you checking the output of fwrite to see if it's not false.

Dan

[KeredDrahcir]

Good point. Thanks I'll give that a try.

[KeredDrahcir]

Could this be anything to do with the file I'm trying to copy being a php file?

[KeredDrahcir]

The file might be one a remote site but it's on the same server so I've managed to access it through the server just by going up two layers from the public_html layer to the home layer.

require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/../../domain_name/public_html/folder/file.php');

[Oralloy]

I'm not a PHP guy, but it seems to me that you're reading from a "URL".

Also, you note in your request that the file is "remote".

If that's the case, I would think you'd need to use a HTTP client object to access the remote file. Isn't "fopen" only for the computer's local file system, like in "C"?