Need to know a wget command for php

[Nihir]

Hi,
I am working on php mysql environment.
What i need to know if there is any wget command for php that will enable me to download a file directly from another server to my own server.

[Dutta]

According to me what you can do is drop the wget idea

& use this

<?php copy('Remotefile', 'Localfile'); ?>

I dont know about the file size though.

[Itronix]

wget is an amazing Unix tool that I use very often.
While I did not have SSH access to the old server, but had FTP access. I used the following wget command to log into FTP and download every single file under my home directory to the new server:

wget -r -N -l inf [url]ftp://user:pwd@ftp.example.com/foldername[/url] 

Within a few minutes all the data had been transferred across.
I hope this helps you!

[Raine]

If you have shell access, you can login, navigate to the directory you want a given file to land in, and use a command like:

wget [url]http://archive.org/thefile.zip[/url] (or whatever it actually is). 

From the shell, you can execute raw Unix commands. This is like running DOS commands from a command line.