Grab png image remotely without CURL

[maccy93]

I need to get images from a site remotely. I own and control the site I am getting trying to get the files from.

 

I tried the following:

//write the new file to disk
$fh = fopen($fileLocationHost, 'w') or 

//get the contents of the file from the 2spring server according to the coordinates
$newImage = file_get_contents('http://www.mysite.co.uk/'.$imageLocation.'/'.$imageName);

//write the changes
fwrite($fh, $newImage);

//close the files
fclose($fh);

 

It worked... kind of. It downloaded something but the png image was unreadable.

 

I then found this link: http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/php/php-save-images-using-curl/  which talks about a problem with allow_url_fopen and uses CURL to grab images from another site... however I cannot use CURL as it is disabled.

 

Is there a way of writing an image to a server another way? Is there a way of doing this via fopen?

 

Any help would be very much appreciated

 

(I also cannot use fsockopen either as this is also disabled)

[Psycho]

I need to get images from a site remotely. I own and control the site I am getting trying to get the files from.

 

If you own/control the site then get the images via the FTP functions built into PHP.

[requinix]

copy works too.