PHP-dynamically re create a remote image, instead of downloading it?

Question

Hi all
this is what I'm trying to do, using PHP:
say I have two sites: "example.com" and "mysite.com".
I would like to get an image from example.com to mysite.com.
I mean get the physical image file.
It would be great if instead of having to manually download
the image from one site, then upload it
to the other, I could dynamically "read" the remote image,
and re-create it dynamically on mysite.
Is it possible? I know PHP can "read" files (although I'm not
familiar with this), and I am familiar
with creating images dynamically (creating thumbnails for
example).
Ho, and I am in total control of both sites, so I can
implement whatever system on either sites, to
enable the transfer of the image.
I'd like to know if you have done that before or if anyone
can think of a simple chain of functions
to acheive this.
seb ( [email protected])
http://webtrans1.com | high-end web
design
An Ingenious WebSite Builder:
http://sitelander.com

Answer 1

(_seb_) wrote:
> David Powers wrote:
>> (_seb_) wrote:
>>> So I store the style sheet and their images on
sitelander.com, but I
>>> want anybody using my system to be able to pick
and choose any style,
>>> from a page on THEIR website, and apply it to
THEIR website.
>>> Basically like you change the skin of your
FireFox browser, I want to
>>> do the same with website "skins".
>>> So I need to transfer the images used by the
css, because I don't
>>> want my site to serve the background-images for
hundreds of web
>>> sites... (and hopefully thousands some day)
>>
>> In your original post, you said you have total
control of both sites.
>> In this scenario, it sounds as though you want to
transfer the files
>> to someone else's site. Unless the request is
triggered by a script on
>> the target site, any attempt by sitelander.com to
write files to the
>> target site is likely to be rejected by the server
as a hostile attack.
>>
>> On the other hand, if you do have total control of
both sites, it
>> means that anyone using your system must be hosted
on one of your
>> servers. In that case, it makes no difference if the
images are served
>> directly from sitelander.com. You might just as well
leave them where
>> they are.
>>
>> Or have I misunderstood what you're trying to do?
>>
>
> The user uploads the website builder package to their
own server, not
> mine. But the package will already include the code for
getting the
> files from my server. So the script to get the files
from my server will
> be on their server.
> Now, my website builder only works on a server that has
world
> permissions to write files.
That is the main limitation with my website builder. I have
tried to include a FTP solution where if
there is no world permission to write file on the server, the
user can enter his FTP info in the
website builder, and the website builder attempts to log them
in as FTP user, and chmod dirs and
files via an FTP command:
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
if(ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_password)){
if(ftp_site($conn_id, 'CHMOD 0777 '.$dir)
But that part is a little bit over my head and I have trouble
testing it since the servers I use all
have world permissions (I choose them because of that)...
> So if they have successfully installed and tested
SiteLander on their
> server, it already means that they have world
premissions to write files
> on it, and the script in the package can assume that.
>
seb ( [email protected])
http://webtrans1.com | high-end web
design
An Ingenious WebSite Builder:
http://sitelander.com