What are best practices for retrieving and storing images from IP cameras in PHP?

When retrieving and storing images from IP cameras in PHP, it is best practice to use a library like cURL to make HTTP requests to the camera's API endpoint. You can then save the image data to a file on your server using file_put_contents().

// Retrieve image from IP camera
$camera_url = 'http://your_camera_ip_address/image.jpg';
$image_data = file_get_contents($camera_url);

// Save image to a file on the server
$file_path = 'path/to/save/image.jpg';
file_put_contents($file_path, $image_data);