PHP Save Images Using cURL
March 18th, 2008Read More curl, php
Some hosts disabled the ini setting allow_url_fopen. This also means that the ability to easily grab images by calling imagecreatefromjpeg($img) where $img is a url for an external image does not work.
This is a shame as this technique is pretty easy..
PHP:
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$remote_img = 'http://www.somwhere.com/images/image.jpg';
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$img = imagecreatefromjpeg($remote_img);
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$path = 'images/';
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imagejpeg($img, $path);
However I was tearing my hair out trying to get a product feed integration system to work on a host that has disabled the allow_url_fopen mechanism which meant the above wouldnt work.
Thankfully cURL was still working. So here is the function I made for grabbing and saving an image using cURL instead:
PHP:
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//Alternative Image Saving Using cURL seeing as allow_url_fopen is disabled - bummer
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function save_image($img,$fullpath){
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$ch = curl_init ($img);
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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
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$rawdata=curl_exec($ch);
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curl_close ($ch);
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}
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}
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