I am looking for a simple way to import/copy images from remote server to a local folder using PHP. I have no FTP access to the server, but all remote images can be accessed via HTTP (i.e. http://www.mydomain.com/myimage.jpg).
Example use: A user wishes to add an image to his profile. The image already exists on the web and the user provides with a direct URL. I do not wish to hotlink the image but to import and serve from my domain.
While copy() will accept a URL as the source argument, it may be having issues a url for the destination.
Have you tried specifying the full filesystem path to the output file? I'm assuming you're not trying to put the new file onto a remote server.
For example:
$file = 'http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AGI4aY2SFaE/Tg8yoG3ijTI/AAAAAAAAA5k/nJB-mDhc8Ds/s400/rizal001.jpg';
$newfile = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/img/submitted/yoyo.jpg';
if ( copy($file, $newfile) ) {
echo "Copy success!";
}else{
echo "Copy failed.";
}
The above worked nicely for me.
You could use preg_match instead.
As you're getting the HTML back from CURL, you can then use Regex to match the text instead:
function fetch_google($terms="sample search",$numpages=1,$user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0')
{
$searched="";
for($i=0;$i<=$numpages;$i++)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$url="http://www.google.com/searchbyimage?hl=en&image_url=".urlencode($terms);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com/');
curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,120);
curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,120);
curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,10);
curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,"cookie.txt");
curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,"cookie.txt");
$searched=$searched.curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
}
$matches = array();
preg_match('/Best guess for this image:[^<]+<a[^>]+>([^<]+)/', $searched, $matches);
return (count($matches) > 1 ? $matches[1] : false);
}
You can use the libraries from a third party called asi-http-request. It simplyfies for you most of the hard works. In your case, you just do as the following:
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request appendPostData:imageData];
[request setRequestMethod:@"PUT"];
I test your script it work fine for me, just remove the useless double quote and dot for $image.
<?
$image ="http://cdn.sstatic.net//img/sprites.png?v=5";
$rename="123";
$ch = curl_init($image);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$rawdata=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$fp = fopen("$rename.jpg",'w');
fwrite($fp, $rawdata);
fclose($fp);
?>
If you have PHP5 and the HTTP stream wrapper enabled on your server, it's incredibly simple to copy it to a local file:
This will take care of any pipelining etc. that's needed. If you need to provide some HTTP parameters there is a third 'stream context' parameter you can provide.