Save png file locally from a URL in PHP

Question

I have to download a png file and use it for Image Processing in php. I want to save this image: /favicon?domain=http://facebook.com/">https://plus.google.com//favicon?domain=http://facebook.com/ into my local folder and perform image processing operations over it.

When I am doing this, its working fine:

$url = 'http://s.wordpress.org/about/images/color-blue.png';
$img = 'try1.png';
file_put_contents($img, file_get_contents($url));

but this is not working a file try1.png is getting created of 0kb

$url = "https://plus.google.com/_/favicon?domain=http://facebook.com/";
$img = 'try1.png';
file_put_contents($img, file_get_contents($url));

Please help. Regards, Suyash

change `https` to `http` -- that is if you are getting the error `Unable to find the wrapper "https"...` — Dave Chen, May 26 '13 at 07:06
duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/724391/saving-image-from-php-url-using-php — casraf, May 26 '13 at 07:08
SOLVED : in the php.ini file added this lines: extension=php_openssl.dll allow_url_include = On — Suyash Dixit, May 26 '13 at 07:27
http://phptooltip.blogspot.in/2013/05/save-image-from-remote-sitecurl.html — Shijin TR, May 27 '13 at 11:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 26 '13 at 07:22

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Please try this:

<?php

$url = "https://plus.google.com/_/favicon?domain=http://facebook.com/";
$img = 'try1.png';

$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
$result = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);  

file_put_contents($img, $result);

?>

answered May 26 '13 at 07:22

Dave Chen

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I am trying to save favicons from google api using your code but it doesn't work. Could it be something with my php configuration? – Kareem Dec 16 '15 at 18:10

Save png file locally from a URL in PHP

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