How to correctly and easiest download a file from a URL to a folder assets

[*Most Powerful Pony!*]

There is a link leading to the file, need download it, and put it in the page

How this can be done using the correct API?

[Martijn Geerts]

http://cheatsheet.processwire.com/

[*Most Powerful Pony!*]

Good! Just show me how to get the path to the server folder assets through API, and show me where the class description PagefilesManager

[kongondo]

Path

http://processwire.com/api/variables/config/ 

E.g.: $config->urls->assets

PagefilesManager class

http://processwire.com/apigen/class-PagefilesManager.html

Save pages via API (including images...)

http://processwire.com/api/variables/pages/

[Valery]

Hey,

Here's a snippet that does the job for me.

$file_source = 'http://www.openbsd.org/images/puffy54.gif';

$file_content = file_get_contents($file_source);

$target_page_id = '9999'; // replace with a real id

$target_page = $pages->get($target_page_id);
$target_page->of(false);

$file_target = $config->paths->files . $target_page_id . '/' . 'puffy54.gif'; // or do basename() on $file_source

file_put_contents($file_target, $file_content);
$file_field_name = 'attachment';

$target_page->$file_field_name->add($file_target);
$target_page->save();

[*Most Powerful Pony!*]

Velery it's good

$file_target = $config->paths->files . $target_page_id . '/' . 'puffy54.gif';

replace via API

 

$file_target = $page->filesManager()->path; . 'puffy54.gif';

[adrian]

I am sure I am missing something about what you want to do, but this works for me:

$target_page = $pages->get(xxxx);

$target_page->files->add("full url to file"); 

$target_page->of(false);
$target_page->save();
 

I haven't looked to see what PW is using in the background (maybe file_get_content with a fallback to cURL), but there might be an issue with file_get_contents if you have allow_url_fopen off in your server config.