Save image from url with curl PHP

To save an image from a URL using PHP and cURL, you can use the following function:

<?php

function saveImage($image_url, $image_name)
{
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $image_url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  $image = imagecreatefromstring($data);
  $image_name = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\. -]/', '', $image_name);
  imagejpeg($image, $image_name, 100);
  imagedestroy($image);
}

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To use this function, pass the URL of the image as the first argument and the desired name for the saved image as the second argument. For example:

<?php

saveImage("http://example.com/image.jpg", "image.jpg");

This will save the image to the current working directory with the specified name. You can also specify a different directory by including the path in the image name. For example:

<?php

saveImage("http://example.com/image.jpg", "/path/to/directory/image.jpg");