Question

I have this host that disables allow_url_fopen as they said it is a security risk which in turns prevents my use of getimagesize function because I am passing in a http.

My site is on WordPress and I am using getimagesize to pull in a image within the uploads folder of a WordPress site which obviously contains http://.

So my question is if this is not safe? If it is not safe, how can this be done within a WordPress environment?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Ok the solution is to use CURL. So something like this would work.

$filename = "http://www.example.com/example.jpg";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $filename);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$new_image = ImageCreateFromString($contents);
imagejpeg($new_image, "temp.jpg",100);

$size = getimagesize("temp.jpg");

// width and height

$width = $size[0];
$height = $size[1];