Url instead of upload

How do I make A form box where you input a url i.e "tinypic.com/img/83982038jdksjd" and it will post the image. This will replace a upload function i.e click browse windows pops up, you select image

use php file function to get that image read by you and store (if required)
and if you don't know how to use file functions, then forget about it

For more information on how to use the PHP file function you see it here:

http://www.php.net/file

theres no way i can change a <input type="file" name="imguload" /> into something like <input type="text" name"imguload" /> ?

Sure you can, but unless you modify the the script which works with the upload as well making that swap would be pointless.

The easiest thing to do is probably going to be to wrap the existing section of the script which works with the image in an elseif statement, then add an if statement above that checks for the existance of $_FILES['field_name'].

For instance

I had same problem, thanks.