CopyCam

$image_url = "http://dyer.rice.edu/WillRice/images/willrice-webcam.jpg";
$now = date('Y-m-d-Hi') ;

$timeout = 0;

if ( date('Hi') < "0600" || date('Hi') > "1330" ) {

	echo "no construction going on right now. it would be useless to capture the image." ;
	
} else {

	set_time_limit(300);

	$ch = curl_init();

	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $image_url);
	// curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
	curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);

	// GETTING BINARY DATA
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);

	// SET FILE OUTPUT
	$outfile = fopen('./images/willrice-webcam/willrice-webcam-'.$now.'.jpg', 'wb');
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $outfile); 

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

	// CLOSE CURL AND FILE
	fclose($outfile);
	curl_close($ch);

	// OUTPUT CONFIRMATION
	echo "copied ".$image_url." to server. timestamp: ".$now ; 

	// OUTPUT TO BROWSER OR EMAIL
	// header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
	// print $image;
	// mail('yourself@example.com', 'cron job with CURL completed', '(empty body)');

}