Storing image file retrieved from external url

No you won't because your request doesn't have a file, it has a string.

You'll have to send a request to the provided URL to retrieve the image. Hint file_get_contents will help you.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

Yea i know i just dont know how to save the "retrieved" file when its not submitted by a form.

Are you storing it on disk? This worked in my tester.

use Storage;

$url = "http://www.google.co.in/intl/en_com/images/srpr/logo1w.png";
$contents = file_get_contents($url);
$name = substr($url, strrpos($url, '/') + 1);
Storage::put($name, $contents);

Works perfect, thanks! Didn't know you could use that class :)

I'm generating Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile from urls, but this helped me get there. Heres my code for anything interested:

$info = pathinfo($url);
$contents = file_get_contents($url);
$file = '/tmp/' . $info['basename'];
file_put_contents($file, $contents);
$uploaded_file = new UploadedFile($file, $info['basename']);

Then I can run it through my controller logic the same way as if someone on my site uploaded it.

congrats

@EXIST73 - This doesn't work now. Laravel has updated the UploadedFile class to accept files that are actually present in the PHP global variable $_FILES. Is there any alternative to this?

@kalesh13

I just tested the following code on laravel version 5.8.14:

$url = 'https://pay.google.com/about/static/images/social/og_image.jpg';
$info = pathinfo($url);
$contents = file_get_contents($url);
$file = '/tmp/' . $info['basename'];
file_put_contents($file, $contents);
$uploaded_file = new UploadedFile($file, $info['basename']);
dd($uploaded_file);
        

And the result can be seen here: https://i.gyazo.com/03b6cd0ea9e5248b1cf2bfcf33ae348c.png

It seems Laravel 5.8.14 seems to work. Was there another version of Laravel this was giving you trouble with?

@kalesh13 As seen in your link, mimeType returns as "application/octet-stream" which, according to the documentation, means it failed:

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/blob/3.0/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/File/UploadedFile.php

@param string|null $mimeType     The type of the file as provided by PHP; null defaults to application/octet-stream

@docmojoman That is not true. It only defaults to "application/octet-stream" when it's not manually provided, which is actually not a big deal.

The SplFileObject Library can handle the mimetype for you.