Comments on: Downloading Multiple Files with Curl Simultaneously

By: tom

tom — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:05:59 +0000

I cant get it working, it just creates all files 0kb. Any ideas?

By: Udegbunam Chukwudi

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:56:49 +0000

I’m missing the point behind this. How does this hack help me a website owner? Forgive my ignorance.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:23:35 +0000

Does this automatically select a disk drive to save to? You know, like C: or D: or E: in the computer?

By: bonaventure

bonaventure — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:54:01 +0000

I would add

curl_setopt($conn[$i], CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);

My array had more than 20 connections and I didn’t realize that my wholesaler limited me to 20 concurrent sessions. I figured out the problem with on activated the verbose feature.
Thanks for your script. It works great!

By: Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:16:11 +0000

Thanks for sharing this example. I made some modifications so that you can process each request as soon as it completes. It makes things a lot faster when you're dealing with a large number of requests:

By: noora

noora — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:30:55 +0000

can i use this script to client side downloading

By: maleos

maleos — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:51:33 +0000

Thank you this script is very helpful and work fine with me.

By: Sotland

Sotland — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:57:37 +0000

Is there that much use for using curl? The downloading would be TOO FAST, and the remote host will block you. Better to stick to file_get_contents with a delay between files, or go to spider hell.

By: lokesh yadav

lokesh yadav — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:59:12 +0000

what type of change we need to done in php.ini files to use this method beacause i used this but this not works.

By: Raghu Veer

Raghu Veer — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:09:38 +0000

this code works fine. I had tested with different files of different file sizes :)