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

Here you go, the example saves the remote image to image.jpg.

function save_image($inPath,$outPath)
{ //Download images from remote server
    $in=    fopen($inPath, "rb");
    $out=   fopen($outPath, "wb");
    while ($chunk = fread($in,8192))
    {
        fwrite($out, $chunk, 8192);
    }
    fclose($in);
    fclose($out);
}

save_image('http://www.someimagesite.com/img.jpg','image.jpg');

Answer 2

install wkhtmltoimage on your server then use my package packagist.org/packages/tohidhabiby/htmltoimage for generate an image from url of your target.

Answer 3

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);

Answer 4

copy('http://example.com/image.php', 'local/folder/flower.jpg');

Answer 5

I wasn't able to get any of the other solutions to work, but I was able to use wget:

$tempDir = '/download/file/here';
$finalDir = '/keep/file/here';
$imageUrl = 'http://www.example.com/image.jpg';

exec("cd $tempDir && wget --quiet $imageUrl");

if (!file_exists("$tempDir/image.jpg")) {
    throw new Exception('Failed while trying to download image');
}

if (rename("$tempDir/image.jpg", "$finalDir/new-image-name.jpg") === false) {
    throw new Exception('Failed while trying to move image file from temp dir to final dir');
}

Answer 6

$img_file='http://www.somedomain.com/someimage.jpg'

$img_file=file_get_contents($img_file);

$file_loc=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/some_dir/test.jpg';

$file_handler=fopen($file_loc,'w');

if(fwrite($file_handler,$img_file)==false){
    echo 'error';
}

fclose($file_handler);