I use Google's My maps. The problem is that Google makes many restrictions in using their API, which makes it hard to insert or retrieve data from the map automatically.
I have a direct download link to this map file which downloads the KML file to any device when clicked.
What I want is a code in PHP to open this link, download the KML file and save it automatically to my server.
i have seen this in a different question but it didnt work for me:
shell_exec("wget -P /target/directory/ http://download.link.com/download.zip");
I think the problem is that my link does not link to a file (does not end in .zip or other file extensions) This is an example for my link: here
Thank you!
You can use file_put_contents and file_get_contents functions, like so:
$path = "/target/directory/file.kml"; // Where the file should be saved to
$link = "https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/kml..."; // Download link
file_put_contents($path, file_get_contents($link));