imagecreatefromjpeg...ing images from other sites

[Spartacus]

I am trying to read an image from another site using PHP and the GD extension inorder to rescale it and use it as a thumbnail on my site, i.e.

$fullSourceFileName_ = "http://www.example.com/photos/testFront.jpg";

$src_ = ImageCreateFromJPEG($fullSourceFileName_);

... and am getting the following error ...

Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg: Unable to open 'http://www.example.com/photos/testFront.jpg' for reading in c:\apache\htdocs\hfr\_code\php\lib\utilities\class .ImageScaler.php on line 184

Can anyone please help while I still have my own hair

[seekituk]

Hi,

Just a stab in the dark as I've not used the GD image library but could it be something to do with permissions on the directory you are trying to create the image in?

Regards

Jason

[Spartacus]

Don't think so. It's reading the image that seems to be the problem. Works fine when I read the file from my own server on laptop. Seems it's http that's getting in the way.

Cheers anyway.

Found loads of this problem on web, but no solution.

[seekituk]

Hi,

Had a quick look and found this:

The problem is that the GD extension explicitly disables URL access
under windows (it uses the IGNORE_URL_WIN flag when opening the
stream).

It's discussed at the following URL:

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=18609

Hope this helps

Regards

Jason

[Spartacus]

Hi

Many thanks. Will look into this tonight.

Think I need to find a way to change this flag from within the script.

Regards


Mel

[Spartacus]

Haaaa

Pretty sure this is impossible. Head done in off to bed. Can't even copy an image from one site/server to another.

Who'd have thought this would be impossible?

[Spartacus]

Ahhhhhggg

Pretty sure this is impossible. Head done in off to bed. Can't even copy an image from one site/server to another.

Who'd have thought this would be impossible?

[Lynx]

Howdy Spartacus

What version of PHP are you using?

Unfortunatly unless you have PHP 4.3.0 or above you can't remote access files via imagecreatefromjpeg (even if allow_url_fopen is enabled).

L.>

[Spartacus]

You may have cracked it. For development I'm using the Triad PHP MySQL package which I think to stopped at about 4.1

Many thanks for pointing this out.