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

Question

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save image from php url using php

How can i use php to save/grab an image from another domain(not on my domain/server) and save it in a directory of my site.

The URL of the image for example , will be :

http://anothersite/images/goods.jpg

How can i use PHP to grab "good.jpg" ,and save it in my directory which is www.mysite.com/directory/

I hope someone could guide me. Thanks!

Answer 1

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