~~~ set_time_limit(0); // Supports all file types // URL Here: $url = 'http://somsite.com/some_video.flv'; $pi = pathinfo($url); $ext = $pi['extension']; $name = $pi['filename']; // create a new cURL resource $ch = curl_init(); // set URL and other appropriate options curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // grab URL and pass it to the browser $opt = curl_exec($ch); // close cURL resource, and free up system resources curl_close($ch); $saveFile = $name.'.'.$ext; if(preg_match("/[^0-9a-z._-]/i", $saveFile)) $saveFile = md5(microtime(true)).'.'.$ext; $handle = fopen($saveFile, 'wb'); fwrite($handle, $opt); fclose($handle); ~~~