Fetching a file..? Help

Hi, im wondering how i can make my new script fetch a file from another website. For example, i'd be adding graphics into a database, but rather than uploading the image if i provide a link to the image, it will then download the image onto my server..

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

 

If your host allows it, most of PHP's filesystem functions will accept URLs as paths:

$image_data = file_get_contents("http://www.example.com/image.gif");

 

or you can try wget ?

 

take a look at:
http://php.net/curl
you can use proxy and hide your IP

 

Cheers got it a while ago, but forgot to post and say