How?
I think I've done this with .PDFs at one time in the past, but I lost the code, and now nothing is turning up on the web about how to go to a URL, get a .gif and copy the .gif file into my directory.
Thanks for any help.
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A:
$gif = file_get_contents("http://path.to/gif/pic.gif");
file_put_contents("path/on/server",$gif);
You need to have fopen wrappers enabled for this to work.
Byron Whitlock
2010-03-02 21:03:57
As a side note, if the GIF is enormous (>1MB), you may want to consider doing this with `fopen` and downloading in chunks. If you don't, you could get an error that PHP is out of memory.
mattbasta
2010-03-02 21:06:53
@matbasta, Very true but it would have to be alot bigger than 1MB. Doesn't PHP default to like 64MB ?
Byron Whitlock
2010-03-02 21:08:29
and very few gif are bigger than 1MB
mathroc
2010-03-02 21:39:23
Thanks. Will be working on the code this morning.
2010-03-03 11:13:46
A:
if your php configuration allow you to fopen url (allow_url_fopen directive in php.ini)
file_put_contents ($filename, file_get_contents ($url));
mathroc
2010-03-02 21:04:27
Why won't copy work? You can use it with streams as of 4.3. What's wrong with this answer?
easement
2010-03-02 21:29:48
You are welcome. Sorry but there is no best answer. Every answer here has a solid basis to solve this simple task.It depends on the developer, which is usable and which not.If you are because of that insulted, i can also vote it up for you, just edit your answer.
streetparade
2010-03-02 21:29:56
copy() is definitely superior to file_put_contents() in this context, as it should operate on a file of any with minimal memory usage. cURL should also behave comparably if correctly configured, and may actually perform better than copy().
Frank Farmer
2010-03-02 21:38:50