Question

I am getting an error using curl to download an image to my localhost. I’ve made sure the permissions are good and the directory exists. I’m at a loss for what to check next. This is the error I’m getting

Warning: unlink(images/) [function.unlink]: Operation not permitted in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/test/image/instapaper.php on line 47

Here is my code:

 $saveto = 'images/';

if ( !file_exists($saveto) ) {
 mkdir ($saveto, 0777, true);
}

    $url = 'http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/4dea2e91338b67cd926140acde1962403c3bf4c2_m.jpg';

echo getcwd() . "\n";

$ch = curl_init ($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$raw=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
if(file_exists($saveto) && is_writable($saveto)){
    unlink($saveto);
}
$fp = fopen($saveto,'x');


if(fwrite($fp, $raw)==false){
  echo 'no dice';
  return;
}
fclose($fp);

**SOLVED

Below is the working code. It basically looks like I was trying to save the image as the directory location I had specified. That’s been cleared up and I’ve got an image name provided to save the file to. In the final script the image name will be taken from the url.

    $url = 'http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/4dea2e91338b67cd926140acde1962403c3bf4c2_m.jpg';
$saveto = 'images/';
$image_name = 'image.jpg';
$full_path = $saveto .  $image_name;

if ( !file_exists($saveto) ) {
 mkdir ($saveto, 0777, true);
}

$ch = curl_init ($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$raw=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
if(file_exists($full_path) && is_writable($full_path)){
    unlink($full_path);
}
$fp = fopen($full_path,'x');


if(fwrite($fp, $raw)==false){
  echo 'no dice';
  return;
}
fclose($fp);

Answer 1

$saveto is a directory – you can’t unlink() it, you must rmdir() it.