Pulling image from remote server to local server

[Sindor]

Hello,

 

    I'm trying to pull remote images from URLs to be saved onto my local server.

 

However, the resulting image is of 0 KB...

 

My code is as follows:

 

<?php

//original image
$img = "http://www.myserver.com/cat.jpg";

//directory to copy to (must be CHMOD to 777)
$copydir = "images//";

$data = file_get_contents(urlencode($img),FILE_BINARY);
if( $data )
{
        $file = fopen($copydir . "test.jpg", "w+");
        fputs($file, $data);
        fclose($file);
}
else
{
        echo "file_get_contents() failed!";
} 
?>

 

When I replace

 

$img = "http://www.myserver.com/cat.jpg";

 

with

 

$img = 'test.jpg';

 

it works.

 

Does anyone know how to resolve this for a remote issue? Or if another way is needed (i.e. using http streams or some other method).

[discomatt]

I really dont like using file_get_contents for anything but text files, even with the binary flag.

 

Try the same with with fopen(), fread()/stream_get_contents(), flcose() instead.

 

If that doesn't work, you host may be disabling fopen wrappers

[corbin]

Try it without the urlencode().