transferring another .jpg to your own

Using PHP 4.1.1. / Apache / Win 98 I'd like to use a .jpg from another URL - say: http://www.blah.com/foo.jpg and turn it into a variable using PHP and then once it is a variable to try to manipulate that image using GD Libraries which are installed. Is this possible? I tried placing the string of the URL into a variable like: $theoldimage="http://www.blah.com/foo.jpg"; and then calling this function of: $thenewimage=imagecreatefromjpeg ($theoldimage); but it did not return a value when I echo'ed $thenewimage Many thanks for any advice. Tony Ritter .................................................................. function LoadJpeg ($imgname) { $im = @imagecreatefromjpeg ($imgname); /* Attempt to open */ if (!$im) { /* See if it failed */ $im = imagecreate (150, 150); /* Create a blank image */ $bgc = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255); $tc = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0, 0); imagefilledrectangle ($im, 0, 0, 150, 30, $bgc); /* Output an errmsg */ imagestring ($im, 1, 5, 5, "Error loading $imgname", $tc); } return $im; }