How to copy an image from a remote img url onto my server ?

[2levelsabove]

For example, i have an image link source "httP://sitename.com/somefile.gif"

 

how to get that copied onto my web server under public_html/images

 

 

would i be using curl ?

 

 

[genericnumber1]

why do you want to do this? it's doubtful anyone will help you here if it's for something malicious.

[2levelsabove]

Umm I have no malicious intent. Just a simple question because I need to to migrate some content from existing site to another.

 

 

 

 

[genericnumber1]

simplest method is

 

$file = 'somefile.gif';
$image = file_get_contents("http://sitename.com/$file");
file_put_contents("/my/path/to/public_html/images/$file", $image);