Copying files from a URL

marque

Hi all,

I need some help on copying a file from one server to another using http.

I know this is probably a security risk and apache probably prevents this from happening, but all I need to do is copy images accross.

Here's my current code

$url = "http://www.domain.com/images/image.jpg";

if(!copy("$url","_datafiles/property/image.jpg"))
     {
     echo"<b>Failed</b><br>\n";
     }
else
     {
     echo"<b>Done</b><br>\n";
     }

Can you see what I am trying to do here?

Thanks heaps.

Weedpacket

Well, if the script running this is the one where the file is supposed to end up, then yes, it can be done. I don't know if copy() can be used (and I have reasons for doubting it), but if it can't, then you can fread() the file from the source and fwrite() it to the destination.

Note that the script has to be running on the destination server; you can't write to a remote file specified with an http URL; http doesn't work like that.

marque

Hey WeedPacket,

Would you mind being a little more specific with fread() and fwrite(). I gave it a go after reading up about those functions and well as a few others such as fopen().

When I use fopen() i get a warning message:

Warning: fopen("http://www.domain.com/images/image.jpg ", "r") - Success

By the way, I am writing to my server which I have given sufficent permissions to the directory which I am writing to.

Thanks.

marque

Never mind, I worked it out,

$im = ImageCreateFromJPEG($val);
ImageJPEG($im, $SaveImage);
ImageDestroy($im);

Pretty simple really,

The problem I was getting was $val had a friggen \n on the end which screwed everything up. $val is a value of an array sources from a url, which had been ereg_replaced a lot to get the final value.

Thanks for your help.