Re: Copying an image from one server to another

I was unsure what was meant by FILE in php - is that the global? How do I reference a remote site's jpg file into FILE? Then how to I create the output from the php into stdout - using the return of a function? or print? Then how to launch rsynch - I understand how to call it from cron, as my web server kindly gives me an interface for this, but to create the file I would need to know what extension to save with the script name, and how to make it execute, ie the equivalent of <?php for rsynch scripts. Then how is FILE read by rsynch script. So lots more questions just to copy a publicly available image into my site. There has got to be an easier way. John Mr Webber wrote:

Note the rsync option: --include-from=FILE

       This  option  is  related  to  the --include option, but it specifies

a FILE that contains include patterns (one per line). Blank

       lines in the file and lines starting with ';' or '#' are ignored.  If

FILE is -, the list will be read from standard input. So, from a PhpScript, you manage the contents of "FILE" and then launch rsync with the appropriate additional options. -----Original Message----- From: ioannes [mailto:ioannes@btinternet.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:59 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Copying an image from one server to another Initially I could not find much on SCP and rsynch is about synchronising folders, but that is only part of the problem. I don't want files in the target location that are not referenced from the target database. I hold references like this img[]=pic1.jpg&img[]=pic2.jpg then I parse it out into the img array. So I want to do it from php programming and am on a shared server. I may have access to the terminal for linux/unix but I am not too strong in that area. So am I wrong to be still thinking of cURL? John Aleksandar Vojnovic wrote:

How about sending the file via SCP? (it would be a much more safer to transfer files) -Aleksander Chris wrote:

    
ioannes wrote:
      
I am trying to:

- check whether an image file exists on a server, - check whether it does not exist on another server, and if not exists - to copy from the first location to the second. I am using cURL. First step to capture the image from the first server. When I return this image to the browser I get a lot of strange characters. So has this captured the image and what do I use next to upload to the second server? I was trying to use file_exists and had problems referencing the file location as "http://wwww.mysite.com/pic.jpg". But I know I can also look at using readfile() and file_put_contents(), $fp = fopen(), fputs(), fpassthru() etc. What is best way?

FTP. There's no way fopen is going to be able to write to a remote url, that'd just be such a huge security issue it's not funny.