How can fopen wrappers be utilized to enable copying files from URLs in PHP?

To copy files from URLs in PHP, you can utilize fopen wrappers to open the URL as a file handle and then use file functions like fwrite to write the contents to a local file. This allows you to easily download files from URLs and save them locally on your server. 

$url = 'https://www.example.com/file.zip';
$localFile = 'localfile.zip';

$remoteFile = fopen($url, 'r');
$localFile = fopen($localFile, 'w');

stream_copy_to_stream($remoteFile, $localFile);

fclose($remoteFile);
fclose($localFile);

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