How to Save a JPEG Image Locally from 3rd Party Site

brandleader

I am trying to grab an image from a 3rd party website (jpeg) and save it locally to my server. Below is what I am currently doing, however it seems to only be saving the top 10 pixels or so of an image (not the rest).

Any ideas would be much appreciated!! 🙂

$imagePathURL = "http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/eclipse/williams/Williams_College_wl.jpg";

$imgname = "somethingunique.jpg";
$saveImgTo = "myphotographs/" . $imgname;



$si = fopen($imagePathURL, "r");  // open URL 

   $serverImg = fread($si, 1024*1024);  // read contents 

fclose($si);  // close file 



$si = fopen($saveImgTo, "w+b"); 

   fwrite($si, $serverImg);  // write contents to file 

fclose($si);  // close file

Kudose

You should be reading the file in binary as well.

fopen("file.jpg", "rb");

brandleader

Thanks Kudose... Your solution works great. 😃

Also, found this code that is presented in a slightly different way (still using the 'rb') which is what I implemented:

How can i save an image from a remote web server to my web server?
Aug 30th, 2001 03:56

Pavel Prishivalko, Bjorn H

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/10321/fid/51

Here's the snippet:

$url_file = fopen("http://host/image.jpg",'rb');
$newfile_name = "/tmp/mydownload.file";
$newfile = fopen($newfile_name,'wb');
while (!feof($url_file)) {
  $chunk = fread($url_file,1024);
  fwrite($newfile,$chunk);
}
fclose($newfile);
fclose($url_file);

in file "/tmp/mydownload.file" you will have the image you need

:evilgrin: