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Cleverbum@hotmail.com
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#1: Aug 10 '06
Before I go on a mad quest to try to code some pages, I think it's
probably prutent to ask something. If I were to pass a php page either
an ftp or http address of an image file (assuming it had a username and
password coded in), would I be able to make it go and get that file and
save it in a folder local to that page?


Rik
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#2: Aug 10 '06

re: getting files over ftp/http


Cleverbum@hotmail.com wrote:
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Before I go on a mad quest to try to code some pages, I think it's
probably prutent to ask something. If I were to pass a php page either
an ftp or http address of an image file (assuming it had a username
and password coded in), would I be able to make it go and get that
file and save it in a folder local to that page?
As far as I understand your question, perfectly.
Look into fopen(). (Check wether allow_url_fopen is enabled in your
settings), or look at the PHP FTP functions:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ftp.php

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus


Armando Padilla
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#3: Aug 11 '06

re: getting files over ftp/http


Rik wrote:
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Cleverbum@hotmail.com wrote:
>
Quote:
>>Before I go on a mad quest to try to code some pages, I think it's
>>probably prutent to ask something. If I were to pass a php page either
>>an ftp or http address of an image file (assuming it had a username
>>and password coded in), would I be able to make it go and get that
>>file and save it in a folder local to that page?
>
>
As far as I understand your question, perfectly.
Look into fopen(). (Check wether allow_url_fopen is enabled in your
settings), or look at the PHP FTP functions:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ftp.php
>
Grtz,

Try using file_get_contents works alot better when it comes to opening
URLS since the stream might be caught off when using fopen.

Concerning if you can download the image straight from a URL
call...hummmmmmm

#1. What you can do is hit the page
#2. Remove all references (image paths) from the page
#3. Open up the images individually using imagefromjpg($path) <-- ?
#4 Save the stream that the imagefromjpg returns as a jpg file. :-)



Armando Padilla
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