save an image from a URL then save it into a directory php [duplicate]

Answer 1

This link may be answer your question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/909374/copy-image-from-remote-server-over-http

to me the following code should serve ur need:

$url = "http://other-site/image.png";
$dir = "/my/local/dir/";
$lfile = fopen($dir . basename($url), "w");

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $lfile);

fclose($lfile);
curl_close($ch);

Answer 2

You should be able to use file_get_contents for this one. In order to use an URL with file_get_contents make sure allow_url_fopen is enabled in you php.ini file.

define('DIRECTORY', '/home/user/uploads');

$content = file_get_contents('http://anothersite/images/goods.jpg');
file_put_contents(DIRECTORY . '/image.jpg', $content);

Make sure that you have write permission to the directory where you want to store the image; to make the folder writable you could do this:

chmod +w /home/users/uploads

References

1. file_get_contents
2. allow_url_fopen
3. chmod command