PHP Script to download image from remote url

October 21, 2022

This PHP script allows you to download an image from a remote URL. This can be useful when you want to download an image from a website that does not allow direct linking to images.

<?php
    $file_url = "https://file_url.jpeg"; // Replace your remote image url here
    $file_name = basename($file_url);
    header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
    header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename="".$file_name.""");
    readfile($file_url);
    exit;
?>

The code above is an example of how to force a file download using PHP.

The file_url variable is set to a URL pointing to a file. The basename function is used to get the filename from the URL.

The content type header is set to application/octet-stream so that the file will download instead of displaying in the browser.

The content-transfer-encoding header is set to binary so that the file is downloaded as a binary file instead of text.

The content-disposition header is set so that the file will download with the specified filename. Finally, the file is read using the readfile() function, and the script exits.

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