how to save remote image to a file using php curl? - php

Question

i am trying to save a remote image to a file using php curl but the file never get saved! could any one help me how to troublshoot this problem ? the image file never get created and but echo $returned_content has the data!
<?
$returned_content = get_data('http://somesite.com/43534545345dfsdfdsfdsfds.jpg');
echo $returned_content;
$fp = fopen('43534545345dfsdfdsfdsfds.jpg', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $returned_content);
fclose($fp);
/* gets the data from a URL */
function get_data($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
?>

Answer 1

<?php
$ch = curl_init('http://www.example/2012/09/flower.jpg');
$fp = fopen('/localProject/imagesFolder/newname.jpg', 'wb');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

Answer 2

Try this
<?php
function getImagen($url, $rename, $ch)
{
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$rawdata=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$fp = fopen("$rename.jpg",'w');
fwrite($fp, $rawdata);
fclose($fp);
}
$ch = curl_init();
$image ="http://sampleurl.com/imagen.jpg";
getImagen ($image, "imagen", $ch);
?>
Works 100% :)