Saving image from PHP URL

Question

I need to save an image from a PHP URL to my PC. Let\'s say I have a page, http://example.com/image.php, holding a single \"flower\" image, nothing else. How ca

Answer 1

Vartec's answer with cURL didn't work for me. It did, with a slight improvement due to my specific problem.

e.g.,

When there is a redirect on the server (like when you are trying to save the facebook profile image) you will need following option set:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

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The full solution becomes:

$ch = curl_init('http://example.com/image.php');
$fp = fopen('/my/folder/flower.gif', 'wb');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);