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Nettuts on 06/25/10


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Save Any Website Image to your Server

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  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. function saveImage($path) {
  4.  
  5. 	if ( !preg_match('/\/([^\/]+\.[a-z]{3,4})$/i', $path, $matches) ) die('Use image please');
  6.  
  7. 	$image_name = strToLower($matches[1]);
  8.  
  9. 	$ch = curl_init ($path);
  10. 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  11. 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
  12.  
  13. 	$img = curl_exec ($ch);
  14. 	curl_close ($ch);
  15.  
  16. 	$fp = fopen($image_name,'w');
  17. 	fwrite($fp, $img); 
  18. 	fclose($fp);
  19.  
  20. }
  21.  
  22. saveImage('http://nettuts.s3.cdn.plus.org/513_jsFromNull/javascript-from-null.jpg');
  23.  
  24. ?>

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Posted By: Nettuts on June 25, 2010

This is a handy little function that I needed for a project several months ago. By calling the "saveImage" function, and passing in a path to an image, it will save the image to your server. Make sure that you modify the "fopen" section if the image should be stored in some specific folder.

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