A PHP script to download Moodle to a shared web space with only FTP access

download_moodle.php

<?php
$url = "https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable310/moodle-latest-310.zip";
$zipFile = "moodle-latest-310.zip"; // Local Zip File Path
$extractPath = ".";

$zipResource = fopen($zipFile, "w");

if(!ini_get('allow_url_fopen'))
 die("Error: 'allow_url_fopen' is disabled.\n");

// Get The Zip File From Server
$ch = curl_init();
if($ch === false) {
 echo "Error :- ".curl_error($ch);
 die();
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $zipResource);
$page = curl_exec($ch);
if($page === false) {
 echo "Error :- ".curl_error($ch);
 die();
}
curl_close($ch);

/* Open the Zip file */
$zip = new ZipArchive;
if($zip->open($zipFile) != "true"){
 echo "Error :- Unable to open the Zip File";
 die();
} 

echo "Extracting…<br/>\n";

/* Extract Zip File */
$zip->extractTo($extractPath);
$zip->close();

echo "Success.<br/>\n";

echo "Moving contents…<br/>\n";

shell_exec("mv moodle/* moodle/.* .");
shell_exec("rmdir moodle");

echo "Finished.<br/>\n";