Saving image from PHP URL

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I need to save an image from a PHP URL to my PC  Let s say I have a page  http   example com image php  holding a single  flower  image  nothing else  How can I save this image from the URL with a new name  using PHP

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Vartec s answer with cURL didn t work for me  It did  with a slight improvement due to my specific problem   e g    When there is a redirect on the server  like when you are trying to save the facebook profile image  you will need following option set   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  true       The full solution becomes    ch   curl init  http   example com image php     fp   fopen   my folder flower gif    wb    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FILE   fp   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  0   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  true   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch   fclose  fp

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img file  http   www somedomain com someimage jpg    img file file get contents  img file     file loc   SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT     some dir test jpg     file handler fopen  file loc  w     if fwrite  file handler  img file   false       echo  error      fclose  file handler

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If you have allow url fopen set to true    url    http   example com image php    img     my folder flower gif   file put contents  img  file get contents  url      Else use cURL    ch   curl init  http   example com image php     fp   fopen   my folder flower gif    wb    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FILE   fp   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  0   curl exec  ch   curl close  ch   fclose  fp

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content   file get contents  http   example com image php    file put contents   my folder flower jpg    content

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None of the answers here mention the fact that a URL image can be compressed  gzip   and none of them work in this case  There are two solutions that can get you around this  The first is to use the cURL method and set the curl setopt CURLOPT ENCODING             image validation         Handle compression  amp  redirection automatically  ch   curl init  image url    fp   fopen  dest path   wb     curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FILE   fp      Exclude header data curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  0      Follow redirected location curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  1      Auto detect decoding of the response   identity  deflate   amp  gzip curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT ENCODING        curl exec  ch    curl close  ch   fclose  fp    It works  but from hundreds of tests of different images  png  jpg  ico  gif  svg   it is not the most reliable way  What worked out best is to detect whether an image url has content encoding  e g  gzip          image validation         Fetch all headers from URL  data   get headers  image url  true       Check if content encoding is set  content encoding   isset  data  Content-Encoding       data  Content-Encoding     null      Set gzip decode flag  gzip decode     content encoding     gzip     true   false   if   gzip decode           Get contents and use gzdecode to  quot unzip quot  data     file put contents  dest path  gzdecode file get contents  image url       else          Use copy method     copy  image url   dest path      For more information regarding gzdecode see this thread  So far this works fine  If there s anything that can be done better  let us know in the comments below

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I wasn t able to get any of the other solutions to work  but I was able to use wget    tempDir     download file here    finalDir     keep file here    imageUrl    http   www example com image jpg    exec  cd  tempDir  amp  amp  wget --quiet  imageUrl     if   file exists   tempDir image jpg          throw new Exception  Failed while trying to download image       if  rename   tempDir image jpg     finalDir new-image-name jpg       false        throw new Exception  Failed while trying to move image file from temp dir to final dir

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Here you go  the example saves the remote image to image jpg   function save image  inPath  outPath      Download images from remote server      in     fopen  inPath   rb         out    fopen  outPath   wb        while   chunk   fread  in 8192                 fwrite  out   chunk  8192             fclose  in       fclose  out      save image  http   www someimagesite com img jpg   image jpg

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data   file get contents  http   example com image php     img   imagecreatefromstring  data   imagepng  img   test png

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copy  http   example com image php    local folder flower jpg

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install wkhtmltoimage on your server then use my package packagist org packages tohidhabiby htmltoimage for generate an image from url of your target

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See file  PHP Manual    url       http   mixednews ru wp-content uploads 2011 10 0ed9320413f3ba172471860e77b15587 jpg    img       miki png    file     file  url    result   file put contents  img   file

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Create a folder named images located in the path you are planning to place the php script you are about to create  Make sure it has write rights for everybody or the scripts won t work   it won t be able to upload the files into the directory

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