Grab Picture From Remote URL
It's a really easy function to that copies remote picture into local folder. You can just use PHP copy() directly, but this function does little more than that, enjoy.PHP
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function grab_remote_pic($new_file_name, $local_dir_path, $remote_picture_url)
{
if(!is_dir($local_dir_path)){ //create new dir if doesn't exist
mkdir($local_dir_path);
}
$local_file_path = $local_dir_path .'/'.$new_file_name;
if(copy($remote_picture_url, $local_file_path))
{
return true;
}
}
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//grab_remote_pic(NEW FILE NAME, LOCAL SAVE PATH, REMOTE IMAGE URL)
grab_remote_pic('new_file_name.gif', 'home/path/to/local/images/', 'http://graph.facebook.com/1442161041/picture?width=120&height=120');