Topic: [SOLVED] Extract image from URL

[swamp]

Hi there,

Could anyone give me a hand with this? I need to extract an image from a remote URL (Just the first image on the site)..

so if $url = 'http://www.bbc.co.uk' it would grab the first image it finds on the site.

Cheers

[Adam]

You can use file_get_contents() to get the source code, then use preg_match() to locate the first image. The pattern would be something like:

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<img[^\bsrc\b]+src="(.+?)"[^>]+>