Grabbing Images and Saving Them

[Anon]

I've seen this or something like this here but for the life of me I can't find it, so sorry if its a repost.

How do I go to grab an image from a known source on the net and save it to my servers local drive?

I have the grab part down, but how do I do the copy?

for($nIndex = 1;$nIndex < 5;$nIndex++) {
$sName = "http://www.myothersite.com/images/" . $nIndex . ".jpg";
if(!$file=fopen($sName,"rb")) {
echo("Could not open file - tats01/$nIndex.jpg.<br>");
} else {
??????
}
}

Does anyone have a hint for me?

Jim

[Anon]

To get the entire file into a variable, which can then be written out to a file on your local drive, use the PHP file() function. This way you don't have to know the size of the image you are getting (Which, as far as I know, you can't find out anyways...).

Some code might be:
$file = join("",file("$sName"));
// Write $file to a local image

Hope this helps get you started,
-Josh B

[[deleted]]

If all else fails, read the manual 🙂

in the annotations at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

-- quote --
I've tryed to copy a file located somewhere in the web to a local
destination; It works quite well, but is there a faster method for that??

Here's my example:

$handle = fopen ($WebFile, "r");
$outhandle=fopen ($LocalFile,"w");
while (!feof($handle)) {
$buffer=fread($handle,4096);
fputs($outhandle,$buffer);
}
fclose($handle);
fclose($outhandle);
-- end quote --