How to copy a remote watermark image to folder?

Hi all,

For copying an image i use this

function copyImg($url) {
$file=file_get_contents($url);

$local_name=basename($url);

if ($file) {

    $handle=fopen('test/'.$local_name, 'a');

    //writes to current directory (must be chmod'd to 777)

    if (fwrite($handle,$file) === false) {

         echo "Cannot write file";

    } else {

         echo 'File successfully written. thanks!';

    }

    fclose($handle);

} else {

    echo '<a href="'.$url.'">'.$url.'</a> cannot be read';

}

}

PHP:

but this doesn't work for
watermark.php?folder=dat&width=300&article=663

How can i fix this??

 

what do you mean? Is watermark.php using GD to generate an image? If so, when you copy just save the file as a .gif or .jpg whatever it is creating the image as.

Regards,
Dennis M.

 

hi dennis,

Indeed that is exactly what i meant. Somehow it doesn't save the watermark as an image i get an unexpected format/error. If i browse to watermark.php with the variables it does show a .jpg`.

Any suggestions?

 

think i got it to work by adding

ob_start();
include($url);
$file = ob_get_contents();
ob_get_clean();

PHP:

 

AARRRHGG and now it doesn't work?

 

hmm, i am now trying with a class i found. Which works very fine........except with

function endElement($parser, $tagName) { 
	
        if (($tagName == "ITEM") or ($tagName == "GENERAL"))  {
//here save the rss elements

//but now for the image
$image = new GetImage;
// just an image URL for testing
$image->source =  'http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/12_01/17banksyES_468x606.jpg';
//give it a name base on merchant name
			$test = $merchantName.'-'.$this->id;
			$image->givenName = $test;//doesn't work
//$image->givenName = "this-one-worked";
			$image->save_to = 'testfolder/'; // with trailing slash at the end
			$image->quality = '75';
			$get = $image->download('gd'); // using GD

//here the other rss elements

			$this->id = "";
            $this->title = "";
			
            $this->description = ""; 
			$this->img_large = "";
			 $this->link = ""; 
            $this->insideitem = false; 
        } 

    }

Code (markup):

The code works when i hardcode the $givenName. But i like it to be a combo of merchant name + id. What happens is the extension isn't being saved.

When i set $givenName = "testing"; It will save testing.jpg

Do i need the "" for the class???