Copy Image from Remote Server Over HTTP

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I am looking for a simple way to import copy images from remote server to a local folder using PHP   I have no FTP access to the server  but all remote images can be accessed via HTTP  i e  http   www mydomain com myimage jpg    Example use  A user wishes to add an image to his profile   The image already exists on the web and the user provides with a direct URL   I do not wish to hotlink the image but to import and serve from my domain

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use   imageString   file get contents  http   example com image jpg     save   file put contents  Image saveto image jpg   imageString

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Here s the most basic way    url    http   other-site image png    dir     my local dir      rfile   fopen  url   r     lfile   fopen  dir   basename  url    w     while  feof  url   fwrite  lfile  fread  rfile  1   1    fclose  rfile   fclose  lfile     But if you re doing lots and lots of this  or your host blocks file access to remote systems   consider using CURL  which is more efficient  mildly faster and available on more shared hosts    You can also spoof the user agent to look like a desktop rather than a bot    url    http   other-site image png    dir     my local dir     lfile   fopen  dir   basename  url    w      ch   curl init    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   url   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  0   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Mozilla 4 0  compatible  MSIE 7 0  Windows NT 5 1     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FILE   lfile    fclose  lfile   curl close  ch     With both instances  you might want to pass it through GD to make sure it really is an image

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Since you ve tagged your question  php   I ll assume your running php on your server   Your best bet is if you control your own web server  then compile cURL into php   This will allow your web server to make requests to other web servers  This can be quite dangerous from a security point of view  so most basic web hosting providers won t have this option enabled    Here s the php man page on using cURL   In the comments you can find an example which downloads and image file     If you don t want to use libcurl  you could code something up using fsockopen   This is built into php  but may be disabled on your host   and can directly read and write to sockets   See Examples on the fsockopen man page

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make folder and name it foe example download open note pad and insert this code  only change http   www google com aa zip to your file and save it to m php for example  chamod the php file to 666 and the folder download to 777    lt  php define  BUFSIZ   4095    url    http   www google com aa zip    rfile   fopen  url   r     lfile   fopen basename  url    w    while  feof  rfile   fwrite  lfile  fread  rfile  BUFSIZ   BUFSIZ   fclose  rfile   fclose  lfile     gt    finally from your browser enter to these URL http   www example com download m php  you will see in download folder the file download from other server  thanks

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You ve got about these four possibilities    Remote files  This needs allow url fopen to be enabled in php ini  but it s the easiest method  Alternatively you could use cURL if your PHP installation supports it  There s even an example  And if you really want to do it manually use the HTTP module  Don t even try to use sockets directly

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It s extremely simple using file get contents  Just provide the url as the first parameter

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If you have PHP5 and the HTTP stream wrapper enabled on your server  it s incredibly simple to copy it to a local file   copy  http   somedomain com file jpeg     tmp file jpeg      This will take care of any pipelining etc  that s needed   If you need to provide some HTTP parameters there is a third  stream context  parameter you can provide

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Use a GET request to download the image and save it to a web accessible directory on your server   As you are using PHP  you can use curl to download files from the other server

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For those who need to preserve the original filename and extension   origin    http   example com image jpg     filename   pathinfo  origin  PATHINFO FILENAME    ext   pathinfo  origin  PATHINFO EXTENSION     dest    myfolder      filename          ext   copy  origin   dest

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PHP has a built-in function file get contents    which reads the content of a file into a string    lt  php   Get the file  content   file get contents  http   example com image jpg       Store in the filesystem   fp   fopen   location to save image jpg    w    fwrite  fp   content   fclose  fp     gt   If you wish to store the file in a database  simply use the  content variable and don t save the file to disk

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This answer helped to me download image from server to client side    lt a download  original file jpg  href  file path jpg  gt     lt img src  file path jpg  class  img-responsive  width  600    gt   lt  a gt

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