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merlin
merlin

Reputation: 2917

How to define timeout for copy image from server

I need to copy an image from a server in order to create different types of images from it, like e.g. a thumbnail.

while it works ok with ImageCreateFromJPEG($picture_location); it will also create a problem if the image is not available and take 30s to timeout.

Therefore I thought about downloading first with copy:

copy('http://www.server.com/file.jpg', '/tmp/file.jpeg');

Unfortunatelly there is also no way to decrease timeout if the connect fails or the image has been removed.

Is there a better way to achieve what I am intending? Thank you for any help on this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 650

Answers (1)

kuba
kuba

Reputation: 66

You can download file via curl which has timeout option. 

<?php

$fp = fopen (dirname(__FILE__) . '/localfile.tmp', 'w+');
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 50); //timeout
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

Upvotes: 3

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