Posted by Carl on 02/03/07 00:44

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 an remote image 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 the remote data.
http://www.php.net/curl

Carl.

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