Remote file upload???

issue9mm

Okay, here's the scenario.

What I'm trying to create is a form that will allow me to specify the URL of a remotely hosted image.

Once I hit submit, the code should grab that image (I'm assuming through fopen()), and somehow copy it to my server.

I can upload files to my server, but because I'm using php 4.0.something, I can't use copy and use the remote file as the source. Is there any way that I can work around this, and either use fopen or fputs to write the file to my server, after it's been opened from another server?

I don't necessarily care how elegant the code, but it's driving me nuts that I can't figure out a process that will work.

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diego25

Use fopen and fread...

Diego

issue9mm

something like this?

$imageDir = "../images/products/";

$image = @fopen($imagefile, r);

$read1 = @fread($image, 10000000) OR DIE ("error 1");

$fileImage = $imageDir.$product_id.".jpg";

$image2 = copy($read1, $fileImage);

Whenever I do that, copy refuses to work. That's abbreviated code, as I took out all the error-checking, but whenever I run that, I get

"Warning: Unable to open 'GIF89a.' for reading: No such file or directory in /home/virtual/site6/fst/var/www/html/upload.php on line 63"

the hell?

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issue9mm

Anyone have any other suggestions as to why what I have won't work?

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Weedpacket

Originally posted by issue9mm
Anyone have any other suggestions as to why what I have won't work?

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The obvious question to ask is: why does PHP think that the filename is "GIF89a"? That's straight out of the start of the file - it's the magic byte sequence that identifies it as a GIF89 file.

So why is PHP trying to use the file's contents when it should be using file's name? Look into that.