excel - Get image from local path in php -

i working on bulk upload project using excel sheet , using cakephp 3.2 writing application.

i have excel sheet column give image uploaded.

user have 3 choices go either

1. upload images pre defined directory before bulk upload , give name of image in cell , image automatically selected path.
2. give url of image (http://website/path/image.jpg)
3. give path of image if on local machine. ex., c:\user\pictures\image.jpg if windows, , /home/user/picture/image.jpg if linux

this i'm doing save images

$p_image = $objworksheet->getcellbycolumnandrow(30, $row)->getvalue(); if (filter_var($p_image, filter_validate_url)) {    // image url    $full_image_path = $p_image; } else {      // image folder     $path = configure::read('media.bulkupload.pre.product');      // full path of image root directory     $full_image_path = $path . ds . $p_image; } $upload_path = configure::read('media.upload') . ds . 'files' . ds;  // new name of image $img_new_name = uniqid('img_').round(microtime(true) * 1000).rand(1,100000);  if ($full_image_path) {     // generate uuid directory name    $dir = text::uuid();    // create new directory    mkdir($upload_path.$dir, 0777, true);     // save file    try {      $img = new \abeautifulsite\simpleimage($full_image_path);       // save image of original size         $img->best_fit(850,1036)->save($upload_path.$dir.'/'.$img_new_name.'.jpg');      } catch(exception $e) {         echo 'error: '.$e->getmessage();      } } 

image upload using url , pre ftp upload working fine. but, how image path of local system , save them.

you can't without users uploading image themselves. cannot retrieve file client's filesystem external server run php.