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Sathish Kumar VG
Sathish Kumar VG

Reputation: 2172

Image upload by image URL or image Link in WordPress

How to upload a image by image URL or link of the image in WordPress media library by programming.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 448

Answers (1)

Ahmed Ginani
Ahmed Ginani

Reputation: 6650

You can do that by passing the $_REQUEST['image'] via URL , by doing the following.

// $filename should be the path to a file in the upload directory.
$filename = $_REQUEST['image'];

// The ID of the post this attachment is for.
$parent_post_id = 37;

// Check the type of file. We'll use this as the 'post_mime_type'.
$filetype = wp_check_filetype( basename( $filename ), null );

// Get the path to the upload directory.
$wp_upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();

// Prepare an array of post data for the attachment.
$attachment = array(
    'guid'           => $wp_upload_dir['url'] . '/' . basename( $filename ), 
    'post_mime_type' => $filetype['type'],
    'post_title'     => preg_replace( '/\.[^.]+$/', '', basename( $filename ) ),
    'post_content'   => '',
    'post_status'    => 'inherit'
);

// Insert the attachment.
$attach_id = wp_insert_attachment( $attachment, $filename, $parent_post_id );

// Make sure that this file is included, as wp_generate_attachment_metadata() depends on it.
require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php' );

// Generate the metadata for the attachment, and update the database record.
$attach_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $filename );
wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $attach_data );

set_post_thumbnail( $parent_post_id, $attach_id );

Just skip the part you don't need , like set the image to post -> set_post_thumbnail() , I have added it for better reference to attach the image to post.

Upvotes: 1

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