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  1. zaheer-bashir revised this gist Jul 22, 2020. 1 changed file with 5 additions and 1 deletion.
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    // Add Feature Image
    /****
    **** Add Feature Image
    ****/

    $url = "apple.jpg";
    $image_url = $url;
    $url_array = explode('/', $url );
    $image_name = $url_array[count($url_array)-1];

    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $image_url);

    // Getting binary data
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    // Add Feature Image
    $url = "apple.jpg";
    $image_url = $url;
    $url_array = explode('/', $url );
    $image_name = $url_array[count($url_array)-1];

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $image_url);

    // Getting binary data
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);

    $image_data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    $upload_dir = wp_upload_dir(); // Set upload folder
    $unique_file_name = wp_unique_filename( $upload_dir['path'], $image_name ); // Generate unique name
    $filename = basename( $unique_file_name ); // Create image file name

    // Check folder permission and define file location
    if( wp_mkdir_p( $upload_dir['path'] ) ) {
    $file = $upload_dir['path'] . '/' . $filename;
    } else {
    $file = $upload_dir['basedir'] . '/' . $filename;
    }

    // Create the image file on the server
    file_put_contents( $file, $image_data );

    // Check image file type
    $wp_filetype = wp_check_filetype( $filename, null );

    // Set attachment data
    $attachment = array(
    'post_mime_type' => $wp_filetype['type'],
    'post_title' => sanitize_file_name( $filename ),
    'post_content' => '',
    'post_status' => 'inherit'
    );

    // Create the attachment
    $attach_id = wp_insert_attachment( $attachment, $file, $post_id );

    // Include image.php
    require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php');

    // Define attachment metadata
    $attach_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $file );

    // Assign metadata to attachment

    wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $attach_data );

    // asign to feature image

    // And finally assign featured image to post
    set_post_thumbnail( $post_id, $attach_id );