Is it possible to save the google map image API as an image to my server?
Background: Google map image API is generating an image of the desired location. Every time I am calling for the external URL. Can I save the map image as an image(png, gif) on my server? This will improve my web page speed. I tried with curl but failed to copy the image
you can try something like this:
<?php
$image = file_get_contents('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=15719%20OAKLEAF%20RUN%20DRIVE,LITHIA,FL,33547,US&zoom=8&size=150x100&markers=color%3ablue%7Clabel%3aS%7C11211&sensor=false');
$fp = fopen('ae.png', 'w+');
fputs($fp, $image);
fclose($fp);
unset($image);
?>
you can easily read that url using file_get_contents
snippet for this will be
$url='http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=15719+OAKLEAF+RUN+DRIVE%2CLITHIA%2CFL%2C33547%2CUS&zoom=8&size=150x100&markers=color:blue|label:S|11211&sensor=false';
file_put_contents('filename.png',file_get_contents($url));
This is really easy
just use
if(@copy('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=15719%20OAKLEAF%20RUN%20DRIVE,LITHIA,FL,33547,US&zoom=8&size=150x100&markers=color%3ablue%7Clabel%3aS%7C11211&sensor=false', '/where-u-want-to-save/your-given-name.png')){
echo "image-saved";
}else{
echo "failed"; }
image always returns as png format you may give image a unique name by lat lng value or using php time() function
