<?php
$URL="http://cor-forum.de/forum/images/smilies/zombie.png";
list($width, $height) = getimagesize($URL);
echo 'width: '.$width.'<br>
height: '.$height;
?>
This results in the following output:
width:
height:
EDIT and I get the following warning:
Warning: getimagesize(http://cor-forum.de/forum/images/smilies/zombie.png): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /html/test.php on line 6
--whereas it displays the right values if I use another picture like
$URL='http://getfavicon.appspot.com/http://google.com?defaulticon=1pxgif';
EDIT: I'd like to enable the inclusion of external images in a forum, but I want to check their size first. So, what can I do to get the size of an image, whose server is "blocking me"?
EDIT: allow_url_fopen is set to ON, yes.
Faking the HTTP referer field seems to work on this one:
Source of code