Re: Can PHP be used to snatch images cross-domain?

Brilliant! Now why do all these other scripts I've found make it look so hard?? http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/CURL Take a look at the last script on that site. I suppose it's because of all the error-handling. That last "downloader class" looks promising, through I'm not sure how to pass an URL into it to get and save to a special directory on my server. I like your example better. On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, at 09:41PM, "Robert Cummings" <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: >On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 21:29 -0500, Rob Gould wrote: >> If I have a php script on my own server, can it be used to snatch a JPEG image off of >> another server on a different domain and upload it to my server? For example, could I provide an >> URL to an image on another server and a path on my own server in which to place it? I know in the >> world of Ajax, I could run into cross-domain security issues, but I'm wondering if I can get >> around that with PHP. >> > >Yes, this can be done quite easily. > ><?php > > $content = file_get_contents( > 'http://www.foo.com/images/foo.png' ); > file_put_contents( '/tmp/foo.png', $content ); > >?> > >You will need fopen wrappers enabled for this to work. Either way, there >are other ways to skin the cat if fopen wrappers cannot be enabled. > >Cheers, >Rob. >-- >http://www.interjinn.com >Application and Templating Framework for PHP > > >