What are some alternative approaches to transferring and extracting remote files in PHP, apart from the methods mentioned in the thread?

Issue: Alternative approaches to transferring and extracting remote files in PHP can include using cURL for file transfers and extracting ZIP files using the ZipArchive class. 

// Using cURL for file transfer
$remoteFile = 'http://example.com/file.txt';
$localFile = 'localfile.txt';

$ch = curl_init($remoteFile);
$fp = fopen($localFile, 'w');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);

// Extracting ZIP files using ZipArchive
$zipFile = 'remotefile.zip';
$extractPath = 'extracted/';

$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open($zipFile) === TRUE) {
    $zip->extractTo($extractPath);
    $zip->close();
    echo 'Extraction successful';
} else {
    echo 'Extraction failed';
}

Keywords

cURL FTP file_get_contents stream wrappers SFTP

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