[SOLVED] fwrite remote image not working

[scarhand]

im trying to get an image from a remote URL and write it to a local folder

 

now it gets the image, but the image is always corrupt....

 

code:

 

$sql = mysql_query("select * from prods order by id asc limit 1");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql))
{
  $imgo = $row['img'];
  $imgo = str_replace('product/', '', $imgo);
  $imgu = "http://www.imgsite.com/$img";
  
  $content = file_get_contents($imgu);
  $dir = dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) . '/img';
  $fp = fopen($dir . '/' . $imgo, 'w');
  
  fwrite($fp, $content);
  fclose($fp);
}

[Garethp]

Why not use GD2 to load an external image and save it locally?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

How do you know it is corrupt? How are you attempting to open or display it? Is the resulting file the expected size? Smaller? Larger? Have you opened the file using a programming editor to examine what it actually contains?

 

The GD functions should not be used just to "copy" an image. They take a huge amount of resources and processing time because they operate on an uncompressed bitmap version of the image. You also need to know or find the image type before you can use the correct functions.

[scarhand]

How do you know it is corrupt? How are you attempting to open or display it? Is the resulting file the expected size? Smaller? Larger? Have you opened the file using a programming editor to examine what it actually contains?

 

The GD functions should not be used just to "copy" an image. They take a huge amount of resources and processing time because they operate on an uncompressed bitmap version of the image. You also need to know or find the image type before you can use the correct functions.

 

I opened the file in internte explorer and its a red X. I opened it in windows photo gallery and it tells me "the image is damaged or corrupted".

 

But the image is the same size as the one I used fwrite on.

[scarhand]

I had a path wrong.