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How to save an image to your ftp account from an url using phpFiled Under: Mr Analyst

1. $file_location= ‘http://example.com/image.jpg’; // http address of the image file
2. $img = imagecreatefromjpeg($file_location); // you have to use a different command if you are saving a different format image, use imagecreatefrompng or imagecreatefromgif accordingly
3. $width=800; $height=600;
4. $temp = imagecreatetruecolor( $width, $height );
5. $destination_location=’/location/where/you/want/the/file/to/be/stored/image.jpg’;
6. $quality=80; // quality you wish to retain from the original image, 70% to 80% is good both qualitywise and quantitywise. Trust me it saves a lot of space from the original image
7. imagejpeg($temp,$destination_location,$quality);

this is pretty much it, I was using it in one my applications and when

I had to write this, I just copied the lines that are useful to this post, though I haven’t checked this, you can expect them to work for you right away, please let me know if it doesn’t work byleaving a comment, I’ll try to test it myself

How to save a file to your ftp account from an url (remote) with phpFiled Under: Mr Analyst

This method works for most of the files, I only say most because I haven’t tried all. I have tried SWF flash and images, as I know it works well for both txt/ html files. I guess it will be okay even with pdf or some other file format, please leave a comment if it works for the format you have ben trying.

Access a file with php through it’s url and then write it into your ftp

$from_url=‘http://example.com/sample-file.swf’;
$location_to_write=‘/home/username/mysite.com/test.swf’;
$file_content=file_get_contents($from_url);
file_put_contents($location_to_write,$file_content);

Note:

1. Use complete ftp address for the destination file name
2. /home/username/mysite.com is just the way my host stores files, different hosts have different ways, your’s might use www/blah/public_html kind of navigation

Please leave a comment if it works for other formats or if it doesn’t work at all, that would help others too