Transfer images from XML feed

[wmcelwee]

I am trying to load items into a car classifieds site via an XML feed (in GoogleBase format). The feed has links to images for each vehicle. I am only interested in one image. I can get the path out of the xml, but I don't really know how to proceed from there.

We have a system for people to manually upload files which resizes and organizes the files and I would rather not have to write code to also use external images. I want to copy and resize the images to our servers. I don't really know how to proceed. Any help/tips/general direction to move is appreciated.

[etully]

$url = "http://www.location-of.com/the/image.gif";
$putfile = "/directory/on/your/server/to/store/image.gif";

$file = fopen($url, "r");
$buffer2 = "";
while (!feof($file)) { $buffer2 .= fread($file, 8192); }
fclose($file);

$file = fopen($putfile, "w");
fwrite($file,$buffer2);
fclose($file);

[Weedpacket]

You might also be able to use file_get_contents() and file_put_contents().