Getting an image from a website

[Greg]

In PHP, you can also use socket connections (similar to the Inet control in VB). Your hosting service has to allow it though By the way, fopen will open remote files too.

[Raven_Writer]

Originally Posted by ahecht

I currently have my home computer set up to download the Astronomy Picture of the Day every day, resize it, and put it in my background rotation automatically.

To do it, I used a combination of DailyStrips and ImageMagick.

Full instructions are on my web site at http://zansstuff.com/rotatedesktop.html#apod

Thank you

I've checked that out, and as soon as finals are over with, I will try that and see what happens.

Greg: I started thinking about that, but the problem is that NASA creates a new directory (as far as I know) each day for the pictures.

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by Raven_Writer

Greg: I started thinking about that, but the problem is that NASA creates a new directory (as far as I know) each day for the pictures.

At least a different file for each picture. You pretty much have to extract the URL from the page.