Add remote file to zip

[fheppell]

I'm changing some things around on my webapp and one of the major changes is assets are now stored in S3 (via filepicker.io) rather than locally. Here is some code I have to generate a zip file from an array of files

//example values
//loc could be uploads/1/7878837474test.jpg
//name coule be test.jpg

$downloadarray = array();
          while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)){   
             $downloadarray[] =  array($row['loc'], $row['name']);
          }
          $zipname = rand(0,9999) . 'download.zip';
          $zip = new ZipArchive;
          $zip->open($zipname, ZipArchive::CREATE);
          foreach ($downloadarray as $file) {
            $zip->addFile($file['0'], $file['1']);
          }
          $zip->close();
          header('Content-Type: application/zip');
          header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=' . $zipname);
          header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($zipname));
          readfile($zipname);
          unlink($zipname);

However now the $row['loc'] variable is going to be a remote URL. What is the best way to get external files set up? If possible I don't want to have to download the file onto the server. Just to let you know, if the adding seems to have been done in a strange way it is because originally uploads were stored in 5 different folders and I wanted to reset the file tree so they were all in the root of the zip. However this should no longer be necessary

[fheppell]

If this is impossible could you tell me please as it's very frustrating!

[pixelsoul]

Sure it's possible, but you will need to download the remote file first to your server before you can compress it.

A simple way to download a file

$url = 'http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/158/d/c/Code_is_poetry_wallpaper_by_pixelsoul.png'; // url of file to download
$file = "downloads/download.jpg"; // download location and file name
$src = fopen($url, 'r');
$dest = fopen($file, 'w');

Of course you would need to do some changes here and there, randomize the file name, etc.