Copy file from remote server or URL [duplicate]

Question

I have the following code:

$file = 'http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AGI4aY2SFaE/Tg8yoG3ijTI/AAAAAAAAA5k/nJB-mDhc8Ds/s400/rizal001.jpg'; $newfile = '/img/submitted/yoyo.jpg';  if ( copy($file, $newfile) ) {     echo "Copy success!"; }else{ echo "Copy failed."; } 

and it always output "Copy failed"

copy(/img/submitted/yoyo.jpg) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory 

my directory is set to 777.

any ideas? thanks!

Answer 1

While copy() will accept a URL as the source argument, it may be having issues a url for the destination.

Have you tried specifying the full filesystem path to the output file? I'm assuming you're not trying to put the new file onto a remote server.

For example:

$file = 'http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AGI4aY2SFaE/Tg8yoG3ijTI/AAAAAAAAA5k/nJB-mDhc8Ds/s400/rizal001.jpg'; $newfile = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/img/submitted/yoyo.jpg';  if ( copy($file, $newfile) ) {     echo "Copy success!"; }else{     echo "Copy failed."; } 

The above worked nicely for me.