Re: save file from outside url

On Sunday 08 December 2002 00:47, Jeremiah Breindel wrote: > Thanks for responing Jason! > > There is other code in there for updating some database entries and > producing a confirmation page, but I had them working perfectly before I > added the image code below. Only when acessing the outside script and > saving to file did it start doing the odd things. I didn't write the image > creation script, only hard coded in some values for font and bg colors in > it. I have attached that script at the bottom of this, away from > everything else. Maybe a header problem from that script? Any idea what > 427 is from? Thanks for all your help! > The $image_url is like this - "$rollover_image_url = > "http://www.anysite.com//pngmake.php?msg=" . > $rollover . > "&rot=0&size=12&font=fonts/ARIAL.TTF"; Two things you need to do: 1) Plug the value of $rollover_image_url into a browser and satisfy yourself that the resulting URL does indeed return a valid image, and hence said URL is valid. 2) Plug in a known, static, valid URL (of an image -- actually it can be anything it doesn't really matter) into your code below, and satisfy yourself that the your code does work. > > > local file on my server using the code below: > > > > > > $fc = fopen($image_filename, "wb"); > > > $file = fopen ($image_url, "rb"); > > > > > > if (!$file) { > > > echo "<p>Unable to open remote file.\n"; > > > exit; > > > }else{ > > > while (!feof ($file)) { > > > $line = fread ($file, 1028); > > > fwrite($fc,$line); > > > } > > > } > > > fclose($fc); > > > fclose($file); -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire. */