How do I copy a file from an external server with PHP?

Question

I have to copy JPG from an external server, such as Facebook, to my server.

What is the best way to do so? I though maybe with fread/fopen etc. but I don't know if it is the best way.

This should cover it Along with a few issues stackoverflow.com/questions/3938534/… — Mark Jones
– Mark Jones, Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 13:02
Read the documentation. Almost everything you want to know about PHP can be found there. — Sverri M. Olsen
– Sverri M. Olsen, Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 13:09

BenMorel · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-05 15:56:36Z

You can use URLs with most filesystem functions (like copy).

$url = "http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackoverflow/img/sprites.png"; $target = "/tmp/stackoverflow.png"; copy($url, $target);

Do note that you need to have the php.ini setting allow_url_fopen enabled.

Edwin Alex · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-11 13:04:52Z

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 $url = 'http://facebook.com/image.jpg'; $img = '/my/folder/image.jpg'; file_put_contents($img, file_get_contents($url));

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