download remote image to DB

Anon

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how can i download a remote picture(eg. http://www.phpbuilder.com/images/print.gif ) to my DB?

This is how to did:

$fp = fsockopen('www.phpbuilder.com', 80);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)\n";
fclose($fp);
return;
} else {
fputs($fp,"GET http://www.phpbuilder.com/images/print.gif HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");
$x=1;
$y = 8;
while ($buf = fgets($fp, 4096)) {
//echo $x.". ".$buf."\n";
if ($x > $y) $buffer .= trim($buf); // remove the header content of the page
$x++;
}
}
Header("Content-type: image/jpeg \r\n\r\n");
echo $buffer;
fclose($fp);

It seem like the picture is invalid on my site.

THanks
Louis

Anon

content-type should be image/gif

Anon

I'd usually just go fopen('http://www.phpbuilder.com/images/print.gif');
Then there's no messing with incoming headers.

I'd also use fread() instead of fgets() for binary data, 'cos I don't care about newlines.

Anon

Hi,

Ok i tried with fread() :

$fd = fopen ($url, "r");
if (!$fd) echo "NO FD";
$buffer = fread($fd,$length);
echo $buffer;
fclose ($fd);

But it keep on return me the error :

Warning: fopen("http://www.abc.com/images/a.jpg", "ar+") - Operation now in progress in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/index.php on line 246
NO FD
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/index.php on line 248

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/index.php on line 250

Anon

Well, the file access mode is a little bizarre: "open for appending, open for reading and perhaps writing". I'm doubt you can mix "a" and "r" at all.

I see no reason to use any more than "rb" - read binary. In fact, since you're using a Un*x box, you don't need the "b" either.