how to download an image from somewhere else

[mistercash60000]

Hello,

the problem is that I want to retrieve images from another webpage.
But the problem is that site doesn't allow remote linking
so this way I have to download it and store it locally.

Does somebody know a script where you give as input
ex: http://www.test.com/image.jpg

and that it downloads the image locally to an map that you specify.

I hope somebody can help me

I don't have the knowledge of fopen and such things or headers.

Thanks in advance

[vaaaska]

If they don't allow linking to their images I don't think it's possible. The script would be on your server, not theirs...sorry.

I think you will just have to grab them manually and then up them to your site.

[mistercash60000]

I had a script to download it but the problem was that I couldn't get it to work so I'm sure it is possible.

img is a variable with a url to the image.
The problem is that I can't get it to work because I don't understand a thing about it.

if (isset($_GET['img'])){

  $img = urldecode($_GET['img']);

  $img = substr(urldecode($_GET['img']), 18);

  $header  = "GET $img HTTP/1.0\r\n";
  $header .= "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)\r\n";
  $header .= "Accept: text/html, image/png, image/x-xbitmap, image/gif, image/jpeg, */*\r\n";
  $header .= "Accept-Language: en\r\n";
    $header .= "Accept-Encoding: deflate, identity, chunked;q=0, *;q=0\r\n";
    $header .= "Referer: [url]http://us.imdb.com/\r\n[/url]";
    $header .= "Host: ia.imdb.com:80\r\n";
    $header .= "Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n";
    $header .= "\r\n";

$fp = fsockopen('ia.imdb.com','80');
if (!$fp) {
  die('Error connecting to ia.imdb.com:80 ('.$url.')');
}
fputs($fp, $header);
echo "|$fp|";

/* we only want the image, so skip past the header */
$dummy = '';
while(!feof($fp) && $dummy != "\r\n"){
  $dummy = fgets($fp, 256);
}

/* get the image itself*/
$pic = '';
while(!feof($fp)) {
  $pic .= fread($fp, 1024);
}

fclose ($fp);

/* accept gzipped html, as accepted by the sent headers */
if(strpos($pic, 'Content-Encoding: gzip') > 0){
  $pos = strpos($pic, "\r\n\r\n");
  $pic= gzinflate(substr($pic, $pos));
}

header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
echo substr($pic, strpos($pic,  "\r\n\r\n"));

}

I hope someone can explain it to me in short