Joomla Extensions by Roalcana

    # Set your own path and filename
    $localFile  = '/home/any/path/filename.txt';
    # Set the URI for the file to download
    $remoteFile = 'http://www.elwebserver.com/path/to/file.txt';
    if ($fp = @fopen ($localFile, 'w+'))
    {
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $remoteFile);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
        curl_exec($ch);
        if(curl_errno($ch))
        {
            echo 'ERROR: ' . curl_error($ch);
        }
        curl_close($ch);
        fclose($fp);
    }