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X10nD
X10nD

Reputation: 22030

failed to open stream and permission denied - PHP

I am trying to copy an image from https://i.sstatic.net/KkoAp.jpg to localhost. It gives me a

Warning: copy(https://i.sstatic.net/KkoAp.jpg) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/test/timg

The folder timg has got 777 access

copy("https://i.sstatic.net/KkoAp.jpg","timg/avcsLXI.jpg");

move_uploaded_file() throws the same error

I have seen various examples but not seen one with copy. I do not want to use fopen or curl for this purpose.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9159

Answers (3)

Adam MacDonald
Adam MacDonald

Reputation: 1958

If your looking for an alternative other than fopen or curl, you could use wget:

shell_exec('wget -P timg/avcsLXI.jpg http://i.imgur.com/avcsLXI.jpg');

Upvotes: 0

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360672

If timg is a folder, then there's your problem. copy() works on FILES for both the source AND destination. YOu can't have just a folder for the destination,b ecause copy will try to replace the folder with the file you're copying from. So

copy("http://i.imgur.com/avcsLXI.jpg","timg"); // folder only, WRONG
copy("http://i.imgur.com/avcsLXI.jpg","timg/thepic.jpg"); // correct, folder+file

Upvotes: 1

jszobody
jszobody

Reputation: 28911

You need to specify the desitination filename, not just the directory.

This works for me:

copy("http://i.imgur.com/avcsLXI.jpg","timg/avcsLXI.jpg");

Note that some webhosts don't allow URLs as the source path for security reasons, this will only work if "fopen wrappers" have been enabled.

Upvotes: 3

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