grab image from URL and save to server

[jamie85]

*UPDATE [RESOLVED]**

i just used copy(). suprisingly east :queasy:

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i am trying to create a form where the user can specify a path to an image on the web eg.

http://www.education.umd.edu/images/coe2000/sidepict2.jpeg

, and then we save that image to a directory on our server.

Ive been playing around for a while not which the following, but cant seem to get any to work.

function LoadJPEG ($imgURL) 
		{	
			  ##-- Get Image file from Port 80 --##
			  $fp = fopen($imgURL, "r");
			   $imageFile = fread ($fp, 3000000);
			   fclose($fp);

		   ##-- Create a temporary file on disk --##
			$tmpfname = tempnam (".", "IMG");
			#$tmpfname = tmpfile();
		   ##-- Put image data into the temp file --##
		   $fp = fopen($tmpfname, "w");
		   fwrite($fp, $imageFile);
		   fclose($fp);

		   ##-- Load Image from Disk with GD library --##
		   $im = imagecreatefromjpeg ($tmpfname);

		   ##-- Delete Temporary File --##
		   unlink($tmpfname);

		   ##-- Check for errors --##
		   if (!$im) {
			   print "Could not create JPEG image $imgURL";
		   }

		   return $im;
		}

		$im = LoadJPEG ($url_image);

where $url_image is "http://www.education.umd.edu/images/coe2000/sidepict2.jpeg"

$tmpfname = tempnam (".", "IMG");

im guessing this will create a temp file in the current dir?

thanks,

jamie