Saving image from PHP URL

Question

I need to save an image from a PHP URL to my PC. Let's say I have a page, http://example.com/image.php, holding a single "flower" image, nothing else. How can I save this image from the URL with a new name (using PHP)?

Answer 1

If you have allow_url_fopen set to true:

$url = 'http://example.com/image.php'; $img = '/my/folder/flower.gif'; file_put_contents($img, file_get_contents($url)); 

Else use cURL:

$ch = curl_init('http://example.com/image.php'); $fp = fopen('/my/folder/flower.gif', 'wb'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); fclose($fp); 

Answer 2

Use PHP's function copy():

copy('http://example.com/image.php', 'local/folder/flower.jpg'); 

Note: this requires allow_url_fopen