grabbing image from remote site

vocoder

I want to get an image from a remote site, and then save it on my computer.

I've tried both curl and fopen, and neither seem to be working.

here is an example using fopen

$imgpointer = fopen("http://$img_array[$i]", "wb");

							fwrite($imgpointer,"$dir_country/$dir_country$i$y.gif");
							fclose($imgpointer);

am i doing something wrong? It writes a file, but it's always 0kb.

I'm wondering if it's an assue because of the URL of the img i'm trying to grab....it looks something like this

remotesite/img937859205739/Body/78.27?OpenImage=2375893&Output=gif

so you can see, it's not a standard filename.gif path...but it does indeed return a gif. Is that the problem?

swr

Your fopen attempt is quite confused. You need to open the remote image for reading, then open a new file on your machine to write to. What you've done is open the remote image for writing (which doesn't work), and attempted to write a filename into it (which is not what you want).

If you're using PHP 4.3.0 or later, you should just be able to do this:

copy("http://example.com/image.gif", "/path/to/target/image.gif");

If not, something like this should work (untested):

$remote = fopen("http://example.com/image.gif", "rb");
$local = fopen("/path/to/target/image.gif", "wb");

// Copy data from remote to local
while (!feof($remote)) {
    $data = fread($remote, 1024);
    fwrite($local, $data);
}

fclose($local);
fclose($remote);

vocoder

ahh, thanks, the copy worked...i got a little turned around with trying to use fopen to get the image...thanks for the clarification and help, it's greatly appreciated.