Laravel 4 get image from url

Question

OK so when I want to upload an image. I usually do something like:

$file = Input::file('image');
$destinationPath = 'whereEver';
$filename = $file->getClientOriginalName();
$uploadSuccess = Input::file('image')->move($destinationPath, $filename);

if( $uploadSuccess ) {
    // save the url
}

This works fine when the user uploads the image. But how do I save an image from an URL???

If I try something like:

$url = 'http://www.whereEver.com/some/image';
$file = file_get_contents($url);

and then:

$filename = $file->getClientOriginalName();
$uploadSuccess = Input::file('image')->move($destinationPath, $filename);

I get the following error:

Call to a member function move() on a non-object

So, how do I upload an image from a URL with laravel 4??

Amy help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I don't know if this will help you a lot but you might want to look at the Intervention Library. It's originally intended to be used as an image manipulation library but it provides saving image from url:

$image = Image::make('http://someurl.com/image.jpg')->save('/path/saveAsImageName.jpg');

Answer 2

        $url = "http://example.com/123.jpg";
        $url_arr = explode ('/', $url);
        $ct = count($url_arr);
        $name = $url_arr[$ct-1];
        $name_div = explode('.', $name);
        $ct_dot = count($name_div);
        $img_type = $name_div[$ct_dot -1];

        $destinationPath = public_path().'/img/'.$name;
        file_put_contents($destinationPath, file_get_contents($url));

this will save the image to your /public/img, filename will be the original file name which is 123.jpg for the above case.

the get image name referred from here