Save image from URL with cURL - php

Question

I need to save an image from url directly to my server, i've tried many methods but all seems doesn't work properly. file_put_contents($file_location, file_get_contents($image_url)); keeps me getting no file directory found error. Simple fopen and fwrite keeps returning corrupted image. This one worked, but it keeps returning html file instead of jpg file.
function getimg($url) {
$headers[] = 'Accept: image/gif, image/x-bitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg';
$headers[] = 'Connection: Keep-Alive';
$headers[] = 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8';
$user_agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)';
$process = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$return = curl_exec($process);
curl_close($process);
return $return;
}
$imgurl = 'http://some/url/to/image.jpg';
$imagename= basename($imgurl);
if(file_exists('./image/'.$imagename)){continue;}
$image = getimg($imgurl);
file_put_contents('image/'.$imagename,$image);
Something is missing?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Your code works correct. It downloads the image from the given url.
Your issue will be in the path where the image is stored.
if(file_exists('./image/'.$imagename)){continue;}
$image = getimg($imgurl);
file_put_contents('image/'.$imagename,$image);
In the above code check the path ./image/ and give the path as in the file_put_contents path.

Answer 2

This method works:
<?php
file_put_contents("/var/www/test/test.png", file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/intl/en_com/images/srpr/logo3w.png"));
?>
You need to enable allow_url_fopen and it's the simplest method. See http://php.net/manual/en/features.remote-files.php