I am working with the FaceBook API to upload photos, and the API requires a local file path. As far as I can tell they are handing the request off to CURL like such: upload=#localfilename
But my files don't reside locally, so I am trying to figure out if there is a way to make it work with a remote file....
I tried pointing it to a local file which just did 'echo file_get_contents('some_remote_image.jpg');'
but that didn't work.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
You can however link to them eg
<img src="www.mydomain.com"/>
Is it not possible to cache the file on your server and then delete it after upload? I wrote a Flickr -> Facebook Photo Album app that does this very thing.
All right, well if you don't want to do that, you can do this:
Edit the file facebookapi_php5_restlib.php, tracing the photo upload calls down to the actual curl call, which is in:
private function post_upload_request($method, $params, $file, $server_addr = null)
Now the hacky part, instead of passing the filename for $file, pass in an array and then check if its an array in this function. If it is, extract the binary data from it and set it as one of the post parameters. Some curl parameters that you may need can be found here:
http://www.digimantra.com/technology/php/post-pictures-on-twitpic-api-using-php/
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I am trying to save to disk an image that is served to me via a JSON result. The returned JSON result property that I am interested in is this:
https://i.scdn.co/image/6cd03f58ddf30a1393f06d6469973ba16ac908df
Which is the correct image. The problem is that, while the above URL does display the image, it does not allow me to download it, yet I can download it by right-clicking on it.
What I need to be able to do is, using my PHP code, save it to disk.
I have no issues saving results from other sites that give results that link to a direct image extension (.jpg, .gif or .png). But I have not been able to figure out how to programmatically download the image from the above URL.
Is it possible?
This is the code that I use, which works correctly on results that give a URL that has a correct image extension. The URL returned is loaded into the $largeimg variable.
$input = $largeimg;
$output = 'image.jpg';
file_put_contents($output, file_get_contents($input));
How do I achieve this?
file_get_contents() is able to accept raw URI arguments. Your code works perfectly for me, if modified in the way:
$input = 'https://i.scdn.co/image/6cd03f58ddf30a1393f06d6469973ba16ac908df';
So, file_get_contents() can download the image directly. I think, the problem is your $largeimg variable.
Sorry if I did not get this title right.
I have in my server the redirect.php script that receives a URL passed by the client user, fetches the content using file_get_contents() function and them shows it to the user with echo() function.
The problem is when the user points directly to a PDF or JPG file in that URL and them the script shows the file contents as binary code.
When I set the code to recognize when the requested URL points directly to a downloadable file,
What should be the function or header to echo to the user so that his browser ask him to download the file insted of showing it?
Do I have to first put it into a file inside my server or can I do it directly from a command like file_get_contents()? If I can do that without writing it to my server, it would be a much better approuch.
I can't point directly to the server because some sites are blocked by my employee and the third party company that does this service thinks that StakExchenge sites are malicious and not constructive and were tegged as online communities like Facebook.
Try this:
$sourcefile = "http://www.myremotewebsite.com/myfile.jpg";
$destfile = "myfile.jpg";
copy($sourcefile, $destfile);
I've got a script, largely based on an example uploading PHP file from jQuery Uploader. It gets file type with the following code (it gets this $_FILES component)...
$fileType = (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FILE_TYPE']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FILE_TYPE'] : $upload['type']);
Note; $upload['type'] comes from the $_FILES['files']['type'].
Now, this is fine - except for the fact that some files seem to have no fileType information from this. I can get more accurate responses from using file info and mimetype functions in PHP - but they don't work on $_FILES objects and I'm trying to do this check before I transfer the file to s3 so I don't really want to load it locally.
Can anyone advise if there's something I can to get more accurately report type from $_FILES or is it going to have to load locally in order to run these alternative PHP functions?
finfo is the only way to do this. You cannot rely on information the client sends you, it is far too easy to fake from the client side.
There is no reason that it won't work with $_FILES, you would simply pass $_FILES['files']['tmp_name'] as the file path - this is still a valid file path, and you don't need to call move_uploaded_file() to access the data. Leaving the file in the temp location also has the advantage that it will be destroyed when the script is finished if you haven't done anything with it.
uploading image with file_put_contents make 0 byte file.
here is the code that I use. I extract facebook image url and put it into web server.
$fb_image_url = 'https://example.com/229282.jpg'
$filename = substr($fb_image_url, strrpos($fb_image_url, '/') + 1);
file_put_contents('upload/user_pic/original/'.$filename, file_get_contents($fb_image_url));
after I do this, the server receive file name successfully, but it is 0 bytes.
I checked php.ini, and allow_url_fopen is ON.
uploading folder permission is also fine.
To copy images from facebook, script/php program require permission for same. if program/ FB API dont passes validation/permission check, FB dont allows to download any image.
Its looks like your Application don't have permission to download/copy this image from Facebook that's why your getting 0 bytes.
Try giving PUBLIC access to image and keep FB account logged in while coping image
I just put that URL into the browser:
https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/274661_1171545457_6475606_n.jpg
And received 404 Not Found in response. This would explain why you get empty file locally. I strongly suggest that you load the data first, verify what you received and then, if validation passes, save it locally.
here is the solution.
I had a problem with facebook profile address.
$fb_image_url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/'.$facebook_id.'/picture?type=large';
$filename = $fb_id.'_'.time().'.jpg';
$result = file_get_contents($fb_image_url);
file_put_contents('upload/user_pic/original/'.$filename, $result);
with this_ it worked fine. Yeah! Thank you everyone!
I'm writing a web app that at one point allows a user to upload a photo to a flickr account (mine). I want to do this without saving the intermediate image on the server my web app is on.
What I've got so far is a page which implements phpFlickr and accepts a POST from a simple html form. I use $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'] as the path for phpFlickr to use. Here's the code:
<?php
require_once("phpFlickr.php");
$f = new phpFlickr("apikey", "secret", true);
$_SESSION['phpFlickr_auth_redirect'] = "post_upload.php";
$myPerms = $f->auth("write");
$token = $f->auth_checkToken();
$phid = $f->sync_upload($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']);
echo "Uploading Photo..." . $phid;
?>
I'm guessing that the tmp file is being lost because of the redirect that happens when $f->auth("write") is called, but I don't know. Is there a way to preserve it? Is there any way to do this without saving the file to the server?
Answer: There is No way to directly upload a file to Flickr without saving it as an intermediate file.
I've moved on to using move_uploaded_file() followed by a flickr API call, and its working perfectly.
I've also managed to get it to play nice with the excellent Jquery Uploadify, which lets me send multiple files to it in one go.