grabing images.

[patael]

Hey ..
lets say that i want to download some images from the web and save them at my computer or servers (via php of course)
i tried the Copy function, Imagecreatefrom.... and tmp files but nothing seems to be working.
the path of the image is like http://www.somesite.com.image.jpg
any ideas ?
thank u

[HalfaBee]

You of course you only want to grab pictures your allowed to.
HalfaBee

<?
$filename= 'images.jpg';
$pic = file_get_contents( "http://domain.com/$filename" );
if( $fp=fopen( ./grabbed/$filename , 'w' ) )
{
  fwrite( $fp , $pic , strlen( $pic ) );
  fclose( $fp )
}
else
  echo 'Could not open file';
?>

[patael]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: file_get_contents() in c:\phpdev\www\image\copy.php on line 17

i have version 4.3.2
any one?
10Q

[HalfaBee]

O bother!

I always get that backwards.

its file_get_contents()

Halfabee

[patael]

can u help me, please this is very importent/
10Q

[HalfaBee]

It should be correct.

You can replace file_get_contents with this code.

ob_start();
readfile( "http://domain.com/$filename" );
$pic = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

HalfaBee

[Weedpacket]

The fact that they're images is irrelevant, so the image functions aren't needed. All that's important is that they're files (in fact, all that's important is that they're accessible by URLs).

As the manual (remember that?) entry for [man]file_get_contents[/man] mentions, it's available only since PHP4.3, so on earlier versions you'd need to write a file_get_contents() function of your own; say, one like that given in the user note at the bottom of that manual page. Or maybe take the hint that the page gives about its similarity to [man]file[/man] and use join('',file('URL'));.

Get familiar with the manual (and your problem), and next time you'll be able to save yourself an hour and a half. Or eight. Which is nice if things are very important.

[patael]

that stored in my computer is twisted
this is my code.

ob_start();
readfile( "http://grm.m.walla.co.il/w/1-40/61813-1.jpg" );
$pic = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

if( $fp=fopen( "./temp/1111.jpg" , 'w' ) )
{
fwrite( $fp , $pic , strlen( $pic ) );
fclose( $fp ) ;
}
else
echo 'Could not open file';

10X

[HalfaBee]

Try changing it to

if( $fp=fopen( "./temp/1111.jpg" , 'wb' ) )

Halfabee