PHP Image Problem

I'm working on a custom sig for Gaia Online, and want the PHP image to grab my current avatar and place it in the sig image.

Now I was going to do it using the following code
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$image = imagecreatefromjpeg("BaseImage.jpg");
$insert = imagecreatefrompng("http://avatar2.gaiaonline.com/avatarlocation");
$image = image_overlap($image, $insert);
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But It's throwing an error about "URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration"

So....
Am I able to change this ??

Did you try searching the forum for the error message? It has been answered about eleventy-billion times - but just to make it eleventy-billion and one, you will find the answer here: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Allow_url_fopen

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Actually yes I did search the FORUM
But didn't search the WIKI.

But thanks for pointing out the WIKI entryEdited by pgp_protector on 12/22/07 02:47 PM (server time).

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Actually yes I did search the FORUM

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What did you search under? I'm curious because a lot of people claim to have trouble searching on the forum. I did a search on "URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration" as a phrase on all forums and got about 25 posts in 5-10 different threads with that exact error message.

I'm sure it's just some horrible default setting on the search page...

BTW, I searched one year back. The default of one week isn't really helpful for most searches, I find.

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That 7 day restriction is great for speed, but useless for searching.

That's probably why it seems no one ever searches.

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So FAQs do not repeat faster than 52 times per year. Too bad. When they do, default search will work much better.

Ok, I've been trying to get this to wrok using the CURL binary example

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$image_url = "http://avatar2.gaiaonline.com/gaia/members/ava/46/47/386a20bba54746_flip.png?t=1198351001_6.00_11";
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 0;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $image_url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);

// Getting binary data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);

$image = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// output to browser


$insert = imagecreatefrompng($image); // Will hopefully have live version of the Avatar :beg:

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But I get an error

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<b>Warning</b>: imagecreatefrompng(‰PNG

) [<a href='function.imagecreatefrompng'>function.imagecreatefrompng</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/home/.tune/pgpprotector/gw4y.com/sig/pgpsig2a.jpg</b> on line <b>99</b><br />

Found it :doh:

Needed to use imagecreatefromstring vs imagecreatefrompng
Even though I'm getting a PNG image from the remote server.