Ability to ingest image from URL

[bikesource]

Hi Guys,

As a quick suggestion, I though it might be cool if as well as uploading an image, from a local machine, there was also the ability to ingest an image (via curl perhaps) for ads if people already have them on the web.

Not sure how easy this would be, but I think it would be a very useful feature (especially when ingesting many images)

Cheers

T.

[Lhotch]

Im not sure I understand what you mean by "ingest the image", can you elaborate a little bit?

[bikesource]

Originally Posted by Lhotch

Im not sure I understand what you mean by "ingest the image", can you elaborate a little bit?

Example... I have a website with pictures of my item for sale, which I've already put up for perhaps an ebay auction. I really don't want to download the image again, simply to upload it. I want to do one of two things

1. Give it a remote url to pull the image from everytime the ad is displayed (thereby removing the 1MB max image size)

or

2. Give it a remote url to cURL or wget retrieve on to the server.

Does this help to clarify?

Cheers

T.

[Digbydo]

now I may well be guessing or even pretending to be a mind-reader so apologies in advance but some applications allow images to be uploaded (imported) from other sites or from existing images on your server.

Gallery (menalto), for instance, from a web page:

Import files into Gallery from another website. Enter a URL below to a web page anywhere on the net and Gallery will allow you to upload any media files that it finds on that page. Note that if you're entering a URL to a directory, you should end the URL with a trailing slash (eg, http://example.com/directory/).

and from your server:

Transfer files that are already on your server into your Gallery. The files must already have been uploaded to your server some other way (like FTP) and must be placed in a directory where they are accessibly by any element on the server. If you're on Unix this means that the files and the directory the files are in should have modes of at least 755.

As I say, just an idea.... could be something completely different

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by bikesource

Example... I have a website with pictures of my item for sale, which I've already put up for perhaps an ebay auction. I really don't want to download the image again, simply to upload it. I want to do one of two things

1. Give it a remote url to pull the image from everytime the ad is displayed (thereby removing the 1MB max image size)

or

2. Give it a remote url to cURL or wget retrieve on to the server.

Does this help to clarify?

Cheers

T.

Ok, I follow ya. I can see allowing a URL to download the image from but I think if your just looking to store the image URL so you can point to it later your setting yourself up for problems.

If your linking directly to someone elses site(ie not you own web space etc) to display your images hosted there, its bad form (ie bandwidth stealing) and more and more places are implementing hotlink protection to prevent just this type of thing.

[juven14]

I have a class that does this, all you would have to do is something like this:

Create a form to take the url, title, and order. Then pass these and the listing id to the class like this:

PHP Code:

include(class.php);
$img = new Class($title, $url, $order, $listingid);
$img->createImage(); 


Done.

I've removed a bunch of code that surrounded this class so it is possible it has a few bugs. If you are willing to sort out any bugs and do the work send me a PM and I will email you the class.