Posted by peter on 06/27/07 16:43

> Yeah, so I'd be downloading the image data, saving it to a temporary
> file, reading the temp file into the buffer and getting the header. Not
> exactly efficient.
>
> Thanks for imagecreatefromstring(); that was exactly the function I was
> looking for!

How else do you expect a system to know details of files on other systems
without downloading them?

I have a book beside me how many pages has it got, what is the author and
what is the title? This is basically what you are wanting your script to do.

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