Getting Images

Monferno · 05-30-2010, 10:29 AM

Hi,

I am making a game in flash and I need to be able to get all of the graphics from the Pokemon Sprite Repository, http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/sprites.html
What would be a good way to get all of the sprites and are there any ready make scripts for this?

Thanks in Advanced,
Monferno!

maeltar · 05-30-2010, 12:18 PM

Do the sprites need to be local or remote ??

Remote, just use the url to the sprite...

http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/sprites/plfbb/20.png

Local, just download the sprites ...

Maybe a Flash forum would be a better place....

Monferno · 05-30-2010, 12:33 PM

I need the local and was wondering if there would be a PHP script to get the image url, possibly by scanning the folder, and then saving them into a folder.

maeltar · 05-30-2010, 12:49 PM

So what you are looking for is a script to scan the links on the site and download the images for you ???

http://www.httrack.com/

The above is a good tool, but please read http://www.httrack.com/html/abuse.html

Monferno · 05-30-2010, 03:08 PM

It's not getting me any of the sprites.

delayedinsanity · 05-30-2010, 05:32 PM

As suggested, you might be better off learning if there is an efficient way of doing this with actionscript, but if you are determined to use PHP you have two pretty straight forward options. Find out if you have allow_url_fopen enabled on your host, and then it's as easy as;

php Code:

$image_url = 'http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/sprites/plmfa/1.png';
$local = imagecreatefrompng( $image_url );

// This displays the image, but it's just as easy to save it
header( 'Content-Type: image/png' );

imagepng( $local );
imagedestroy( $local );

If allow_url_fopen is disabled, cURL can do what you need.

skibbli · 05-30-2010, 11:58 PM

If your a Firefox user, just use the DownThemAll addon. Downloads a specific filetype of all links on one page.

Very handy