Help changing $_FILES[] local file read to remote file read

3dron

I have a function that resizes an image file that you pick locally and it acquire on post with the follwoing method:

$image = $_FILES[$inputName];

I am trying to edit the function so that it accepts an image file that is located on the web (i.e. http://www.yourname.com/images/pig.jpg). How do I get the file into a variable in the same formate as the $_FILES method above?

$image = file($inputName);

$image = file_get_contents($inputName);

$image = fopen($inputName, "r");

But none seam to get it into the same format that will feed properly into the other functions such as:
imagecreatefromjpeg()
getimagesize()
etc...

Gurus, please help!!!

3dron

dagon

what you need is the file on the local machine

file, reads a file in to an array, not much value for an image
file_get_contents will work, but you still haven't created a file with your code above, you have just read one in to a string

fopen, creates a file pointer that like above still needs to be used to create an actual file on the local system.

3dron

I understand that all the file methods I am trying to use are different.

What I am asking for is an equivilant method so I can read the image off the web and perform sizing operations than have the file resaved to another remote location.

This function runs dozens of times in a loop for dozens of images. Defeats the purpose if I have to go download each of the images locally.

Help!!!

johanafm

Unless the target machine has some way of dealing with some kind of request and image scaling, you will have to download the file, scale it, reupload it.
One way of doing it would be by setting up a web server on the target machine and create your php script there, then call this script from your local machine. Or skip the web server and create a daemon which listens on some port. Or connect via SSH and execute your scaling script.

dagon

3dron;10963865 wrote:
I understand that all the file methods I am trying to use are different.

What I am asking for is an equivilant method so I can read the image off the web and perform sizing operations than have the file resaved to another remote location.

This function runs dozens of times in a loop for dozens of images. Defeats the purpose if I have to go download each of the images locally.

Help!!!

the point is there is not an ' equivilant method' nor dos it make much sense that you some how the ability to use the cpu\file system of a machine you have no rights over.