cURL command needed, help please

BarkyJ

Hello,
I have a website that I purchased from a colleague, which I run for my business. The server I am hosting it with has disabled one of the commands I require for uploading product images from online places, ie put in the URL of the picture and my website uploads it, resizes it, and puts in on the server and on the website.

The command that has been disabled (apparently for security reasons), is getImageSize.
The hosting company said there may possibly be a cURL alternative for this command, but I dont know how to find it. I am very new to PHP programming, so if anyone has any idea, can you PLEASE help me.
This one command has disabled the use of alot of my website, cripling my company.

Thanks
BarkyJ

BarkyJ

Hi,
More info:

getimagesize() returns this in my error log.

Warning: getimagesize(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in (removed server info).php on line 582

Warning: getimagesize(http://www.gnu.org/graphics/reiss-head.jpg): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in (removed server info).php on line 582

This leads to the rest of my code not working, obviously.

I have looked on the forum, and someone suggested another alternative, but that used fopen and fclose, which also appear to be disabled by my server. ImageCreateFromJpg and ImageCreateFromString dont seem to work either.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

BarkyJ

Hi again,
This is the current code segment:

function imageresize($tmpimage,$id){
// image src size
$tmpimage_header = getImageSize($tmpimage);
$tmpimage_ratio = $tmpimage_header[0]/$tmpimage_header[1];

// true color image, with anti-aliasing
$tmpimage_resized = imageCreateTrueColor(200,200/$tmpimage_ratio);

switch ($tmpimage_header[2]) {
	case 1: //GIF
	$tmpimage_original = imageCreateFromGif($tmpimage);
	break;

	case 2: //JPEG
	$tmpimage_original = imageCreateFromJpeg($tmpimage);
	break;

	case 3: //PNG
	$tmpimage_original = imageCreateFromPng($tmpimage);
	break;

	case 6: //BMP
	$tmpimage_original = imageCreateFromwbmp($tmpimage);
	break;

	default:
	return false;
	break;
}

$image = './images/resized/'.$id.'.jpg';

imageCopyResampled($tmpimage_resized, $tmpimage_original, 0, 0, 0, 0,200,200/$tmpimage_ratio,$tmpimage_header[0],$tmpimage_header[1]);
imageJpeg($tmpimage_resized,$image,75);

return $image;

}

I need a replacement, please can someone help.