Save image to server from a URL

Question

I\'ve built a mini-content management system with CKEditor. The user has the ability to paste an image URL from another website. Is there a way to to get all image URLs when the

Answer 1

If you have PHP5 and the HTTP stream wrapper enabled on your server, it's incredibly simple to copy it to a local file:

copy('http://somedomain.com/file.jpeg', '/tmp/file.jpeg');

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.