Question

I’m trying to copy an image from a remote server with the following code:

$src = "http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg";
$dest = "/server/location/upload/";
file_put_contents($dest, file_get_contents($src));

Unfortunately I keep getting the following error:

Warning: file_put_contents(/server/location/upload/) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Is a directory in /server/location/myscript.php on line 220

Do you have any ideas how to get around this?

Answer 1

$src = "http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg";
$dest = "/server/location/upload/" . basename($src);
file_put_contents($dest, file_get_contents($src));

You need to specify the filename. I added basename($src) which will write to the same filename that the original was. Be careful if you’re copying from other directories, basename() only returns the filename so if you copy /image.jpg and /a/image.jpg you’ll write over the original.