Converting fopen to cURL

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I'm getting some warning using the code below:
Error:

failed to open stream: Permission denied in

Code:
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function wwwcopy($url,$dirname){
$file = fopen($url, "r");
if (!$file) {
echo"<font color=red>Failed to copy $url!</font><br>";
return false;
}else {
$fc = fopen("$dirname", "w");
while (!feof ($file)) {
$line = fread ($file, 1028);
fwrite($fc,$line);
}
fclose($fc);
echo "<font color=blue>File $url saved to PC!</font><br>";
return true;
}
}
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I have checked my php.ini settings and my folder/file permissions seem to be set right so i dont know if my host is restricting me or whats up.

allow_url_fopen = On

If someone can help me getting through that issue i wont have to convert to cURL.

*NOTE files hosted on the same server I can copy just not stuff on other servers and thats what i want this code for. This code is meant to copy IMAGES.

But I have also started the cURL code but can't seem to get it working, all i get is a file that contains text! ex. http://someothersite.com/images/image.gif i dont really no anything about cURL and i'm a total noob at php so any help would be appreciated.

[PHP]function wwwcopy($address,$dirname){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $address);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $data;
$FileName = $dirname;
$fh = fopen($FileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $data);
fclose($fh);}[/PHP]

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C'mon i know this isn't that hard, at least provide me with some working cURL code cause i really need this.

Thank you in advance.