Copy Images at URL onto local

Hi,

I am trying to copy static images from the Google Maps by passing latitude and longitude with the following code, but when I try to write it to text file, it said --> invalid or illegal request and writing it to a gif gives to no image.

function cURLcheckBasicFunctions()
{
  if( !function_exists("curl_init") &&
      !function_exists("curl_setopt") &&
      !function_exists("curl_exec") &&
      !function_exists("curl_close") ) return false;
  else return true;
}

function cURLdownload($url)
{
$file = array();
  if( !cURLcheckBasicFunctions() ) return "UNAVAILABLE: cURL Basic Functions";
  $ch = curl_init();
  if($ch)
  {
    $fp = fopen("/var/www/html/maps/x.gif", "w");
    if($fp)
    {
      if( !curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url) ) return "FAIL: curl_setopt(CURLOPT_URL)";
      if( !curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp) ) return "FAIL: curl_setopt(CURLOPT_FILE)";
      if( !curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0) ) return "FAIL: curl_setopt(CURLOPT_HEADER)";
      if( !curl_exec($ch) ) return "FAIL: curl_exec()";
      curl_close($ch);
      fclose($fp);
      return "SUCCESS: $file [$url]";
    }
    else return "FAIL: fopen()";
  }
  else return "FAIL: curl_init()";
}

echo cURLdownload("URL");

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Try the following code.

function OpenURL($url,$ref=null) {

	//Open with cURL
	$header = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)";  

	$ch = curl_init($url); 
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);  
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);  
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $ref);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $header); 
	$data = curl_exec ($ch); 
	curl_close ($ch);

	return $data;
}

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