Re: Best way to recieve image from url?

If you're using file_get_contents, why aren't you using file_put_contents? Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: > Hi, > I have this function: > > > function saveImageFromUrl($image_url, $image_save) > { > $contents = file_get_contents($image_url); > > $fp = fopen($image_save, 'w'); > fwrite($fp, $contents); > fclose($fp); > } > > As you can see it fetches the images contents and write them to new image on > my local directory. > Is this is the best way to do this? (I don't have curl) > Does file_get_contents() uses buffer to get the contents of the image? (in > case the server response is slow) > There is a better way? > > Thanks in Advance, > Nitsan > >