imagecreatefrompng() failed to open stream: HTTP request failed

Question

On my local host this code works well:

$im = imagecreatefrompng('BBcode.png');

But when I use the same code in the server

$im = imagecreatefrompng('http://lazertag.elitno.net/drupal/BBcode.png');

I got the folloowing error:

Warning: imagecreatefrompng(http://lazertag.elitno.net/drupal/BBcode.png) [function.imagecreatefrompng]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /www/elitno.net/l/a/lazertag/home/site/drupal/renderImage.php on line 46

How do I solve this?

`HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden` is pretty clear, isn't it? — Pekka, Sep 17 '11 at 12:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '11 at 12:51

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If the file is on your server, use a (relative) system path, not an url: E.g.:

$im = imagecreatefrompng('drupal/BBcode.png');

answered Sep 17 '11 at 12:51

scessor

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '11 at 12:29

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Before using imagecreate, can you download remote image into a local folder then work on it ?!

your ex:

$imagefile = file_get_contents('http://lazertag.elitno.net/drupal/BBcode.png');
$fp  = fopen('./BBcode.png', 'w+'));
fputs($fp, $imagefile);
fclo$fp);
unset($imagefile);
$im = imagecreatefrompng('./BBcode.png');

answered Sep 17 '11 at 12:29

risyasin

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you have missing letters in the `fclose(...)` line – scessor Sep 17 '11 at 12:34
It's my server and the file i want to use is already stored on my server. – Alexey Sep 17 '11 at 12:42
@alexey then find out why it's returning a 403 and fix it (or use a file path as suggested by @scessor) – Pekka Sep 17 '11 at 13:52

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 17 '11 at 12:33

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403 Forbidden means that the server blocked you from accessing the file. you can try doing a file_get_contents("http://...."); do get an error message, maybe the creator's of the site put one in place else you have to talk to them.

answered Sep 17 '11 at 12:33

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imagecreatefrompng() failed to open stream: HTTP request failed

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