Why can't I get image?

Here is my code(although I have tried a miriad of variations):

<?php 
$ch = curl_init(); 
$timeout = 0; // set to zero for no timeout 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json"); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); 
$twitter = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch); 
$twitterArray = json_decode($twitter);  
foreach ($twitterArray as $tweet){ 
        $i++; 
    $user = $tweet->user;  
    $id[$i] = $user->id; 
        $imageURL[$i] = "\"".$user->profile_image_url."\"";  
    $url[$i] = $user->url; 
        $name[$i] = $user->screen_name;  
    $description[$i] = $user->description;  
    $created[$i] = $user->created_at;  
    $followers[$i] = $user->followers_count;  
    $friends[$i] = $user->friends_count; 
         
    echo(" 
            <pre> 
Record #: $i<br>  
       Image:                $image[$i]<br> 
       URL:                $url[$i]<br>  
       Name:                $name[$i]<br> 
       Description:            $description[$i]<br>  
       Created on:            $created[$i]<br>  
       Followers:            $followers[$i]<br>  
       Friends:                $friends[$i]<br><br> 
            </pre> 
    ");  
            $ch = curl_init(); 
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1); 
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$imageURL[$i]); 
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60); 
            $imageData = curl_exec($ch); 
          echo 'image is: ', htmlentities(substr($imageData, 0, 4)), "...<br />\n"; 
            curl_close($ch); 
            $image = imagecreatefromstring($imageData); 
            $Orbimage = "images/twitter/".$id[$i].".png"; 
            $Orbback = imagecreatefrompng("../images/main/OrbBack.png"); 
            list($current_width, $current_height) = getimagesize($twitterImage); 
            $Orbfront = imagecreatefrompng("../images/main/OrbFront.png"); 
            imagecopy($Orbback,$imageData,50,50,$current_width/2,$current_height/2,$current_width,$current_height); 
            imagecopy($Orbback,$Orbfront,0,0,0,0,100,100); 
            imagesavealpha($Orbback, true); 
            imagepng($Orbback,$Orbimage); 
} 

?> 

PHP:

here is the url: http://orbzorbz.com/php/twitterData.php

I am lost, have tried file_get_contents(url) with no luck and yes I have configured php to allow file open. ???
P.S. the string is indeed empty, even though i get no "cannot open url" error. I can enter url in browser and display image however!
So I guess the real question is why is it empty? I have put in an html "echo" to display pic, it works just fine, of course that is client side.

 

Hi,

Can you post the description of user table and check whether this line is contain anything or not.

$url[$i] = $user->url;

Regards,
Amer

 

change $imageURL[$i] = "\"".$user->profile_image_url."\""; to:

$imageURL[$i] = $user->profile_image_url;

It's already a string so you don't need to add quotes.

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