getting files over ftp/http

[Cleverbum]

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]

Cl*******@hotmail.com wrote:

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,
--
Rik Wasmus

[Armando Padilla]

Rik wrote:

Cl*******@hotmail.com wrote:

>>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