Question

In PHP using GD or imagemagick how can I uplaod a photo from a URL, I want to build a function that I can pass in a few parameters and uplaod the image, I can currentyl uplaod a big image, resize it smaller, then resize some more thumbnails off it and save all into there locations from 1 image but I would like to add the ability to get an image from a URL and then run my code on it to resize and make thumbs.

Would I use curl or something else any example or ideas would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

$image = @ImageCreateFromString(@file_get_contents($imageURL));

if (is_resource($image) === true)
{
    // image is valid, do your magic here
}

else
{
    // not a valid image, show error
}

The @ on both functions are there to prevent PHP from throwing errors if the URL is not a valid image.