Question

I’m willing to use thumbnails into my website which is mainly like websites directory.
I’ve been thinking to save url thumbnails into certain directory !

Example :-

I’m going to use free websites thumbnails service that gives me code to show thumbnail image of any URL as follow

<img src='http://thumbnails_provider.com/code=MY_ID&url=ANY_SITE.COM'/>

This would show the thumbnail of ANY_SITE.COM

i want to save the generate thumbnail image into certain directory my_site.com/thumbnails

Why i’m doing this ?

in fact my database table is like my_table {id,url,image} where i’m going to give the image thumbnail random name and store its new name into my_table related to its url then i can call it back anytime and i know how to do it but i don’t know how to save it into certain directory.

any help ~thanks

Answer 1

Using cURL should work for you:

$file = 'the URL';

$ch = curl_init ($file);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$rawdata=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

$fullpath = 'path to destination';

$fp = fopen($fullpath);
fwrite($fp, $rawdata);
fclose($fp);