create thumbnails from remotely hosted images?

[WallabyKid]

Playing around with the examples posted in PHP's imagecopyresampled manual I can't seem to muster a workable function for the task.

Is it even possible to resize remotely hosted images like this, that is...without ever storing/saving either the original or resized images to the server?

Something like...

<?php
    $image = "http://some_remote_loacation.com/image.jpg";
    $width = "144";
    $height = "127";
?>
<img src ="<?php echo thumb_this($image,$width,$height); ?>" />

[bradgrafelman]

One method you could use is to retrieve the remote image's binary contents and use [man]imagecreatefromstring/man to get a GD image resource for it.

[WallabyKid]

Thanks bradgrafelman,
Whether or not it can be done (which of course it can), after further consideration I've decided that -- in context -- the additional server load renders the notion untenable. I've gone a different direction, but thanks all the same for the reply!😃

Cheers