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Jahanzaib Asgher
Jahanzaib Asgher

Reputation: 252

Curl Image using php but empty file is created

I'm trying to curl image using his code. But it works for some images links but images from wikipedia/wikimedia aren't working. e.g. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Johan_van_der_Veeken.jpg/266px-Johan_van_der_Veeken.jpg

Code:

<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="image_url">
<input type="submit">
</form>
<?php

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'){
 $image =$_POST["image_url"];
$path_parts = pathinfo($image);
$rename=$path_parts['filename'];
$extension=$path_parts['extension'];

$ch = curl_init($image);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
$rawdata=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

$fp = fopen("dowloads/$rename.$extension",'w');
fwrite($fp, $rawdata);
fclose($fp);
echo "$rename.jpg";
}
?>

Error:
When I try to open file in windows photo viewer it says can't display this picture because the file is empty.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1741

Answers (1)

Vineet1982
Vineet1982

Reputation: 7918

Since you are trying to grab the images from http(s) link you have to do things like:

//Init curl
$ch = curl_init ($url);

//Required to be false
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

//Required for http(s)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

//Required to be true
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);

//Response data
$rawdata=curl_exec($ch);

//close
curl_close ($ch);

Note: Its an terrible approach, to ignore SSL warnings. Instead you should set up the certificate and download, forcing the SSL if available

Upvotes: 4

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