Copying Files from onserver to another

I am trying to set up a link excahnge program using php and I need to know how to copy a file from one server to another. See when people change the banner they have displayed they can enter the location of their banner, such as http://them.com/banner.gif and then i need to copy it over to my server and into there dir, such as www.me.com/them/banner.gif.
Does anyone know how i can do this. I have tried many things but nothing has workd so far

[This message has been edited by Aoeex (edited June 19, 2000).]

Try something like this: Have a form that posts to the PHP program...

<form method=POST action="copy.php3" enctype=multipart/form-data>

URL of your current banner:
<input type=text name=banner><br>

And the name of your folder:
<input type=text name=folder><br>

<input type=submit name=submit>

</form>

</body></html>

The PHP program would then look like this:

<?
print "Please be patient, this may take a few seconds...";

copy($banner,"full/path/to/$folder/banner.gif");

print "Done!";

?>

This should work. It'll only work if they know what their directory is ("them"). Their directory would also have to exist on the server already: I don't know how do create directories in PHP. Each banner must also be called banner.gif

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Alex Greg
(http://www.alex-greg.co.uk)

Thanks for the idea but when I tried it I got the same error i did when I tried using the copy () function. This is the error it returns
Warning: Unable to open 'http://www.geocities.com/aoeex/aoeex.jpg' for reading: No such process in
c:home2k-okeithmpublic_html/linkx/copyfromnet.php3 on line 24
I think that PHP's copy() can't accept http:// urls, only file system. So I am guesing that I will have to make my own class/function to copy the file.

Oh and just if you would like to know you can use the mkdir function to make a directory

ex. if(mkdir("/newdir",0777)){ echo "Dir made, Permission set to 777"; }

Try fopen.
Do you really wanted to save the banner locally (waste of disk space) or preferably fetching the banner on demand (per request)?

I do actully need to pull the pic of there server and onto mine for now. I know it is a wast of space but I might try a few thins later on which will help with that.

I don't know about the fopen thoug. havn't really tried anything like that before. I had tried using the file() function to save it into an array but that didn't work. Do ya think mayb if i open both file at the same time and write to one and i read the other it will work?

Something like
$fd=fopen($them,"r");
$fd2=fopen($me,"w");
might work. I'll have to try it later on

Well i finally got it. If anyone wants it the code that i came up with is

<?
if ($banner){
print "Please be patient, this may take a few seconds...<BR><BR><BR>";
$them=$banner;
$me="/path/to/file/$localname";
$fi=fopen($them,"r");
$fl=fopen($me,"w");
while(!feof($fi)){
fwrite($fl,fread($fi,15360));
}
fclose($fl);
fclose($fi);
chmod($me,0644);
print "<BR><BR><BR>Done!<BR>

exit;
}
?>