saving remote images

[sfullman]

I'm sure this can be done with PHP.

Is there any way to pull a remote image (e.g. http://amazon.com/images/logo.gif for example) into a binary format and save as an image locally?

Thanks and links to php.net would be appreciated.

Sam Fullman
Compass Point Media

[daynah]

Can you try this php snippet?

<?
$url_file = fopen("http://amazon.com/images/logo.gif",'rb');
$newfile_name = "/tmp/logo.gif";
$newfile = fopen($newfile_name,'wb');
while (!feof($url_file)) {
  $chunk = fread($url_file,1024);
  fwrite($newfile,$chunk);
}
fclose($newfile);
fclose($url_file);
?>

You image file should be in located at "/tmp/logo.gif" 🙂