So in order to get this to work, I had to put a bottleneck on the function to slow it down a bit. As Andrewsi suggested, the remote site was cutting me off for downloading images too quickly. In order to bottleneck the function, I FTP'd each image to a remote server (since this was required anyway).
Final function looks like this:
function downloadImage($location, $imagesPath, $imageName, $ch3, $feedFTPinfo) {
//Location fix
//$location = str_replace(" ", "%20", $location);
$url = $location;
$path = $imagesPath . $imageName;
$fp = fopen($path, 'w');
$ch2 = curl_init(); // Initiate cURL for downloading images
//Setup the cURL options for the second handle ($ch2)
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0); //Wait indefinitately
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
//Execute the cURL session
$data2 = curl_exec($ch2);
//Resize Images
$image = new SimpleImage();
$image->load($url);
$imageNameSm = str_replace(".jpg", "", $imageName);
$imageNameSm = $imageNameSm."_sm2.jpg";
$image->resizeToWidth(120);
$image->save($imagesPath . $imageNameSm);
$smPath = $imagesPath . $imageNameSm;
//Find out if there were any issues
if ($data2 === false) {
echo "DownloadImage cURL failed 1: (" . curl_errno($ch2) . ") " . curl_error($ch2) . "<br/>";
//exit;
} else {
//There weren't any issues downloading the file, move it to the speficifed ftp server
if (!empty($feedFTPinfo)) {
$localfile = $path;
$fp = fopen($localfile, 'r');
//Setup the options for the 3rd handle
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_URL, $feedFTPinfo.$imageName);
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0); //Wait indefinitately
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($localfile));
//Execute the 3rd cURL handle
$data3 = curl_exec($ch3);
//Find out if there were any issues with the execution
if ($data3 === false) {
echo "Uploading the image via FTP failed: (" . curl_errno($ch3) . ") " . curl_error($ch3) . "<br/>";
//exit;
}
$localfile = $smPath;
$fp = fopen($localfile, 'r');
//Setup the options for the 3rd handle
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_URL, $feedFTPinfo.$imageNameSm);
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0); //Wait indefinitately
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch3, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($localfile));
//Execute the 3rd cURL handle
$data3 = curl_exec($ch3);
//Find out if there were any issues with the execution
if ($data3 === false) {
echo "Uploading the small image via FTP failed: (" . curl_errno($ch3) . ") " . curl_error($ch3) . "<br/>";
//exit;
}
}
}
curl_close($ch2); //Close the cURL handle that downloads images
fclose($fp);
}
If you don't need to ftp somewhere to create the bottleneck, you could use php's sleep
(seconds) or usleep
(microseconds) functions within your downloadImage
function to create a similar bottleneck.
Hope this theory helps someone else out.