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Posted by artlover70 on 02/05/07 08:20
Thank you all so much for your helpful tips and directions.
Jay
On Feb 2, 4:44 pm, "Carl" <c.gro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 4:05 pm, artlove...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone !
>
> > I am just wondering if capturing an image remotely with php is
> > doable ?
>
> > I am working on a project for my department where I need to write php
> > code to capture anremoteimage and save it to a local folder/web site
> > directory given an image's URL.
>
> > Have anyone done anything like this ? If you have, do you mind share
> > your ideas/sample code ?
>
> > Thank you in advance,
>
> > Josh
>
> If by "capturing an image remotely" you mean download and image from
> another website and store it locally, you have a couple of options.
> Both of these can be very simple depending on the configuration of
> your php installation.
>
> 1. If allow_url_fopen is enabled on your machine, you can simply use
> fopen to download the image, and use the resulting file handle to copy
> the data to wherever you wish.http://www.php.net/fopen: see the comment made on '22-Jan-2007
> 02:34', which, If i understood you correctly, does exactly what you
> want.
>
> 2. Slightly more complex, but if your php installation supports curl
> you can simply use curl to fetch theremotedata.http://www.php.net/curl
>
> Carl.
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