thumbshots cached on own server

[landuyt]

Hi,

i have thumbs provided from thumshots.org on my directory.

want i want is that these images can be cached on my server. why?

google images !! (i have another site with a lot o pics and there is coming a huge amaont of visitors tru google images.(50% of visitors))
there is a free php script on their site but i can 't manage it to work.

can someone have a look at this script?

/*
PHP Function to Locally store website images from http://www.thumshots.org
Code is free. No guarantees or warranties.

usage:
<img src="<? echo get_thumb("[LINK]"); ?>">

requires:
PHP 4 >= 4.3.0
*/

function get_thumb($url) {
    //EDITABLE PARAMETERS
    $local_thumb_dir="img/thumbs"; //Where Thumbnail images are stored locally
                                   //Web Server needs to be able to write here
    $days_to_keep=60;              //How many days till check if new thumbnail
    $return_img="/img/p.gif";      //To use if no thumbnail exists
    //END EDITABLE

    if(substr($url,0,4)!='http') $url='http://' . $url; //Make sure URL proper
    $url=urlencode($url);
    $fname=str_replace(array('%3A','%2F'),'_',$url);
    $full_img_path=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/$local_thumb_dir/$fname.jpg";

    if(file_exists($full_img_path)) {
        //check age
        $diff=(time() - filemtime($full_img_path))/60/60/24;
        if ($diff > $days_to_keep) {
            unlink($full_img_path);
        } else {
            $return_img="/$local_thumb_dir/$fname.jpg";
        }   
    }

    if(!file_exists($full_img_path)) {
        //get from thumbshots.org
        $buff=file_get_contents("http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?url=$url");
        if($buff!="") {
            $fp=fopen($full_img_path, "wb");
            fwrite($fp,$buff);
             fclose($fp);
            $return_img="/$local_thumb_dir/$fname.jpg";
        }
    }

    return $return_img;
}

i think that $url must be replaced somehow with <%url%> isn't it?

greetings peter

[inspireme]

in php the url is correct, its only the tempaltes you need to use <%url%>

[inspireme]

I can se eno reaosn why the above wouldnt work if the directory is writeable... nothing obvious.

[landuyt]

i look for an answer in another threat....about the html to image.

http://www.nicecoder.com/community/s...ead.php?t=3055

i 'm going to try to make them myself ( the thumbs ) and serve them from my own server.

[inspireme]

thats the best way... thumbshots isnt great.

Pity home made solutions are always a bit "cludgy" to do this, i have yet to find something server side that just Works.