getting an image from a url

robvilla

This is for an "avatar" option for a website. I know how to get and store an image through file-upload, but I want to add the option of getting an image through inputting a url. Not by hot-linking to that url, but actually downloading the image to the web server. How would I get that started?

LordShryku

I'd use wget.

robvilla

Originally posted by LordShryku
I'd use wget.

Thanks for the reply - I'm having some trouble figuring out how to run wget correctly through php though. I found this:
http://www.zend.com/tips/tips.php?id=91&single=1
but I'm still having trouble with it.

If at all possible, I'd like to be able to access the file's various attributes in the same way I'm currently doing it with the file upload. Such as: $FILES['userfile']['name'] and $FILES['userfile']['type']

robvilla

UPDATE -

I've been trying to figure out the user_avatar_upload function in phpBB's usercp_avatar include.

I "think" what it does is uses fread on the posted url, stores the data on a variable, then fwrite the variable's data in a file on the webserver.