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I am trying to cache in the server the profile images provided by the Facebook Graph API. So far what I did unsuccessfully was getting the path of the image then calling:

$file = file_save_upload($big_pic_url, array(), $dest, FILE_EXISTS_RENAME);

This returns NULL every time. I tried several syntax for the destination path, and also for the Pic URL path, nothing seems to work.

I am doing this the right way? Can file_save_upload() take an external link as part of its argument?

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Here is a solution I've used recently for a Facebook module. Set the image path to $path variable (ie. http://graph.facebook.com/username/picture). Then do the following to store it via Drupal's managed file system:

$image = file_get_contents($path); // this is a PHP function to get a string representation of the image file

$destination = 'public://path/to/store/this/image/name.jpg'; // a stream wrapper path where you want this image to reside on your file system including the desired filename

$file = file_save_data($image, $destination, FILE_EXISTS_REPLACE);

if (is_object($file)) { // if you get back a Drupal $file object, everything went as expected so make the status permenant
   $file->status = 1;
   $file = file_save($file);
}
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    It works if file_get_contents() accept a URL; in some PHP installations, file functions are not allowed to use a URL as filename.
    – apaderno
    Aug 11, 2011 at 17:15
  • Yes you're exactly right about that. I have no idea how to do it otherwise... sorry!
    – mattacular
    Aug 11, 2011 at 18:49
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    You can use others options like fopen() or curl Reading a Remote File Using PHP
    – tostinni
    Aug 11, 2011 at 19:18
  • Ok thanks Matt, file_get_content works form the server so that will do perfectly.
    – silkAdmin
    Aug 11, 2011 at 22:23
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This is the function I am using and that works.

function get_external_image($url) { 
    $external_image = file_get_contents($url);
    $parsed_url = parse_url($url);
    $name_dest = rand(1000,9999)."_". basename($parsed_url["path"]);
    $file = file_save_data($external_image, 'public://'.$name_dest , FILE_EXISTS_REPLACE);
    if (is_object($file) && file_exists($file->uri)) {
        $file->status = 1;
        $file = file_save($file);
        drupal_write_record('file_usage', $file);
        return (array) $file;
    }
    return null;
}

This is an example on how to use it.

// Load your node.
$node = node_load("9999");
// Assign your image.
$node->field_image[$node->language]['0'] = get_external_image("http://cdn.sstatic.net/drupal/img/logo.png");
// Save your node.
node_save($node);

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