Hi all,

I am having some issues with downloading images to my website from my suppliers!

I have a text file (extracted from product their product lists) which has all of the image URLs!

I have tried to use php using the below script which was started via a cron job, however exec is blocked and my hoster has told me to use curl..... Is there something that can be written in or with curl to do the same thing?

<?php

exec("wget -i /path/to/images.txt");

?>

I'm not that familiar with curl, but looking at the man page, there doesn't seem to be any kind of built-in function for it.

You should be able to use some simple shell substitution, however. I managed to get a list of images, (one-per line, with no extraneous lines), to download using the following:
curl seems to require a separate output option for each input url, so I had to modify them with sed before use. wget would be easier to use here, since it saves to file by default you can feed it a raw list.
But then again, wget has its own from-file option anyway.

Edit: If you don't want to use sed, here's a variation using a bash-only loop:

I gave them a try but I get the following error!

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$' in /home/{username}/public_html etc. etc.

Sorry, I really don't know anything about PHP. I thought you were talking about running it directly in a shell, so I gave you bash syntax.

If you really need to use PHP, then perhaps you can wrap the command up in a shell script and call it somehow.

Thanks anyways!

Not sure how to wrap the command up in a shell script and call it somehow