capture images remotely with PHP

[artlover70@yahoo.com]

Hi everyone !

I am just wondering if capturing an image remotely with php is
doable ?

I am working on a project for my department where I need to write php
code to capture an remote image and save it to a local folder/web site
directory given an image's URL.

Have anyone done anything like this ? If you have, do you mind share
your ideas/sample code ?

Thank you in advance,

Josh

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Re: capture images remotely with PHP

artlover70@yaho o.com wrote:

Hi everyone !
>
I am just wondering if capturing an image remotely with php is
doable ?
>
I am working on a project for my department where I need to write php
code to capture an remote image and save it to a local folder/web site
directory given an image's URL.
>
Have anyone done anything like this ? If you have, do you mind share
your ideas/sample code ?

This will work in PHP 4.3.0 and above, and if allow_url_fopen is
enabled:

<?php
$img = imagecreatefrom jpeg("http://example.com/path/to/image.jpg");
imagejpeg($img, "localimage.jpg ");
?>

Alternately, if image functions are disabled, this might work:

<?php
$imagedata = file_get_conten ts("http://example.com/path/to/image.jpg");
$newfile = fopen("localima ge.jpg", "w");
fwrite($newfile , $imagedata);
fclose($newfile );
?>

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[Carl]

Re: capture images remotely with PHP

On Feb 2, 4:05 pm, artlove...@yaho o.com wrote:

Hi everyone !
>
I am just wondering if capturing an image remotely with php is
doable ?
>
I am working on a project for my department where I need to write php
code to capture an remote image and save it to a local folder/web site
directory given an image's URL.
>
Have anyone done anything like this ? If you have, do you mind share
your ideas/sample code ?
>
Thank you in advance,
>
Josh

If by "capturing an image remotely" you mean download and image from
another website and store it locally, you have a couple of options.
Both of these can be very simple depending on the configuration of
your php installation.

1. If allow_url_fopen is enabled on your machine, you can simply use
fopen to download the image, and use the resulting file handle to copy
the data to wherever you wish.
http://www.php.net/fopen : see the comment made on '22-Jan-2007
02:34', which, If i understood you correctly, does exactly what you
want.

2. Slightly more complex, but if your php installation supports curl
you can simply use curl to fetch the remote data.

http://www.php.net/curl

Carl.

[artlover70@yahoo.com]

Re: capture images remotely with PHP

Thank you all so much for your helpful tips and directions.

Jay

On Feb 2, 4:44 pm, "Carl" <c.gro...@gmail .comwrote:

On Feb 2, 4:05 pm, artlove...@yaho o.com wrote:
>

Hi everyone !

>

I am just wondering if capturing an image remotely with php is
doable ?

>

I am working on a project for my department where I need to write php
code to capture anremoteimage and save it to a local folder/web site
directory given an image's URL.

>

Have anyone done anything like this ? If you have, do you mind share
your ideas/sample code ?

>

Thank you in advance,

>

Josh

>
If by "capturing an image remotely" you mean download and image from
another website and store it locally, you have a couple of options.
Both of these can be very simple depending on the configuration of
your php installation.
>
1. If allow_url_fopen is enabled on your machine, you can simply use
fopen to download the image, and use the resulting file handle to copy
the data to wherever you wish.http://www.php.net/fopen: see the comment made on '22-Jan-2007
02:34', which, If i understood you correctly, does exactly what you
want.
>
2. Slightly more complex, but if your php installation supports curl
you can simply use curl to fetch theremotedata.http://www.php.net/curl
>
Carl.