How to use wget in php

Question

I have this parameters to download a XML file   wget --http-user user --http-password pass http   www example com file xml   How I have to use that in php to open this xml file

User · Answer

To run wget command in PHP you have to do following steps :

1) Allow apache server to use wget command by adding it in sudoers list.

2) Check "exec" function enabled or exist in your PHP config.

3) Run "exec" command as root user i.e. sudo user

Below code sample as per ubuntu machine

#Add apache in sudoers list to use wget command
~$ sudo nano /etc/sudoers
#add below line in the sudoers file
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/wget


##Now in PHP file run wget command as 
exec("/usr/bin/sudo wget -P PATH_WHERE_WANT_TO_PLACE_FILE URL_OF_FILE");

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This method is only one class and doesn t require importing other libraries or reusing code   Personally I use this script that I made a while ago  Located here but for those who don t want to click on that link you can view it below  It lets the developer use the static method HTTP  GET  url   options  to use the get method in curl while being able to pass through custom curl options  You can also use HTTP  POST  url   options  but I hardly use that method            echo HTTP  POST  http   accounts kbcomp co            array                  user name   gt  demo example com                   user password   gt  demo1234                          OR      echo HTTP  GET  http   api austinkregel com colors E64B3B 1                                class HTTP     public static function GET  url Array  options array          ch   curl init        if count  options gt 0           curl setopt array  ch   options          curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   url           json   curl exec  ch          curl close  ch          return  json                 public static function POST  url   postfields   options   null           ch   curl init            options   array            CURLOPT URL  gt  url            CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER   gt  TRUE            CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   gt   postfields            CURLOPT HEADER   gt  true             CURLOPT HTTPHEADER  array  Content-Type application json                        if count  options gt 0               curl setopt array  ch   options                    json   curl exec  ch          curl close  ch          return  json

User · Answer

lots of methods available in php to read a file like exec  file get contents  curl and fopen but it depend on your requirement and file permission  Visit this file get contents vs cUrl  Basically file get contents for for you   data   file get contents  file url

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If using Curl in php     function disguise curl  url         curl   curl init           Setup headers - I used the same headers from Firefox version 2 0 0 6       below was split up because php net said the line was too long         header 0     Accept  text xml application xml application xhtml xml        header 0      text html q 0 9 text plain q 0 8 image png     q 0 5       header      Cache-Control  max-age 0       header      Connection  keep-alive       header      Keep-Alive  300       header      Accept-Charset  ISO-8859-1 utf-8 q 0 7   q 0 7       header      Accept-Language  en-us en q 0 5       header      Pragma        browsers keep this blank      curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT URL   url      curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Googlebot 2 1   http   www google com bot html        curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT HTTPHEADER   header      curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT REFERER   http   www google com       curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT ENCODING   gzip deflate       curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT AUTOREFERER  true      curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1      curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT TIMEOUT  10        html   curl exec  curl      execute the curl command    curl close  curl      close the connection     return  html     and finally  return  html         uses the function and displays the text off the website   text   disguise curl  url    echo  text     gt

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I understand you want to open a xml file using php  That s called to parse a xml file  The best reference is here   http   php net manual de function xml-parse php

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If the aim is to just load the contents inside your application  you don t even need to use wget    xmlData   file get contents  http   user pass example com file xml      Note that this function will not work if allow url fopen is disabled  it s enabled by default  inside either php ini or the web server configuration  e g  httpd conf    If your host explicitly disables it or if you re writing a library  it s advisable to either use cURL or a library that abstracts the functionality  such as Guzzle   use GuzzleHttp Client    client   new Client      base url    gt   http   example com      defaults    gt         auth       gt    user    pass           xmlData    client- gt get   file xml

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You can use curl in order to both fetch the data  and be identified  for both  basic  and  digest  auth   without requiring extended permissions  like exec or allow url fopen     ch   curl init    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   http   www example com file xml    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HTTPAUTH  CURLAUTH ANY   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERPWD   user pass     result   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch     Your result will then be stored in the  result variable

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wget  wget is a linux command  not a PHP command  so to run this you woud need to use exec  which is a PHP command for executing shell commands   exec  wget --http-user  user  --http-password  pass  http   www example com file xml      This can be useful if you are downloading a large file - and would like to monitor the progress  however when working with pages in which you are just interested in the content  there are simple functions for doing just that   The exec function is enabled by default  but may be disabled in some situations  The configuration options for this reside in your php ini  to enable  remove exec from the disabled functions config string   alternative  Using file get contents we can retrieve the contents of the specified URL URI  When you just need to read the file into a variable  this would be the perfect function to use as a replacement for curl - follow the URI syntax when building your URL      standard url  content   file get contents  http   www example com file xml        or with basic auth  content   file get contents  http   user pass www example com file xml      As noted by Sean the Bean - you may also need to change allow url fopen to true in your php ini to allow the use of a URL in this method  however  this should be true by default   If you want to then store that file locally  there is a function file put contents to write that into a file  combined with the previous  this could emulate a file download   file put contents  local file xml    content

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Shellwrap is great tool for using the command-line in PHP   Your example can be done quite easy and readable   use MrRio ShellWrap as sh    xml    string sh  curl   u    gt   user pass     http   example com file xml

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lt  php function wget  address  filename      file put contents  filename file get contents  address        gt    use    lt  php wget URL  FileName     gt

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