Get image from local path in php - php

Question

I am working on a bulk upload project using excel sheet and using CakePHP 3.2 for writing application.
I have an excel sheet with a column to give image to be uploaded.
User have 3 choices to go with either
Upload images to a pre defined directory before bulk upload and give the name of the image in the cell and image will be automatically
selected from path.
Give the url of the image (http://website/path/image.jpg)
Give the path of the image if it is on local machine. Ex., C:\user\pictures\image.jpg if windows, and
/home/user/picture/image.jpg if linux
This is what I'm doing to save images
$p_image = $objWorksheet->getCellByColumnAndRow(30, $row)->getValue();
if (filter_var($p_image, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
// get image from url
$full_image_path = $p_image;
} else {
// get image from folder
$path = Configure::read('media.bulkUpload.pre.product');
// full path of the image from root directory
$full_image_path = $path . DS . $p_image;
}
$upload_path = Configure::read('media.upload') . DS . 'files' . DS;
// new name of image
$img_new_name = uniqid('img_').round(microtime(true) * 1000).rand(1,100000);
if ($full_image_path) {
// generate uuid directory name
$dir = Text::uuid();
// create new directory
mkdir($upload_path.$dir, 0777, true);
// save file
try {
$img = new \abeautifulsite\SimpleImage($full_image_path);
// save image of original size
$img->best_fit(850,1036)->save($upload_path.$dir.'/'.$img_new_name.'.jpg');
} catch(Exception $e) {
echo 'Error: '.$e->getMessage();
}
}
Image upload using url and pre ftp upload is working fine. But, how could I get image from the path of local system and then save them.

Answer 1

You can't do this without the users uploading the image themselves. You cannot retrieve a file from the client's filesystem from an external server where you run your php.