Good day, i have a php issue.
I’m making a online tool that resizes given images by a url.
my problem is when i pass the image’s url, from an external website like imgur.com , to the imagecreatefrompng() function, it gives me a 500 error code.
I’ve also tried file_exists() and is_readable() and they both return false.
Which is strange because on the web hosting service i was using before digitalocean, this worked out just fine.
Thank you for your time.
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This function’s ability to use a URL instead of a local file is dependent on the allow_url_fopen setting in your php.ini. On apache this can be found at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. Once you set this to true and restart apache the imagecreatefrompng() should no longer return a 500 error.
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