I am trying to migrate some content from one resources into another and need to save some images (several hundred) located at a remote resource.
Suppose I have only the URL to an image:
https://www.example.com/some_image.jpg
And I would like to save it into the filesystem using PHP.
If I were uploading the image, I essentially would do the following:
<input type="file" name="my_image" />
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['my_image']['tmp_name'], '/my_img_directory');
But since I only have the URL, I would imagine something like:
$img = 'https://www.example.com/some_image.jpg';
$file = readfile($img);
move_uploaded_file($file, '/my_img_directory');
Which of course wouldnt work since move_uploaded_file() doesn't take an output buffer as a first argument.
Essentially, I would need to get $img into the $_FILES[] array under this approach. Or may some other approach?
You can use PHP's copy function to copy remote files to a location on your server:
copy("https://example.com/some_image.jpg", "/path/to/file.jpg");