save file to server from url

[android6011]

I want the user to submit a url, say http://somesite.com/new.jpg and the script to save the image to the server. I dont want to do uploading on the user end. I have the form and everything set up I just need to know what to do with the url. thanks

[per1os]

I am not sure if http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php would work, if it does work it would be done something like this:

 

<?php
$url = "http://www.somesite.com/new.jpg";

ob_start();
readfile($url);
$file = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

$fp = fopen('newfile.jpg', 'wb');
fwrite($fp, $file);
fclose($fp);
?>

 

I think you need the b there for binary, not sure. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php for reference.