Why doesn't the script create an image file in the image folder when parsing from a site?

Question

PHP

Good afternoon!
I create a script for parsing from the site.
The script should: save the names of countries and the paths to the pictures to the database (this can be done). Also, you need to save the gif images to the image folder.
Many lines appear in the browser with the following error:
Warning: file_put_contents(image/FLAG-small/abhaziya.gif): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\OSPanel\domains\test\www\rusakov\parsing17. php on line 36
And the gif file is not written to the image folder, it remains empty. Why is it so? The image folder exists and it is in the same folder as the script.
Here is the whole code:

<?php
require 'C:\OSPanel\vendor\autoload.php';

$host = 'localhost'; // адрес сервера
$database = 'mysite'; // имя базы данных
$user = 'root'; // имя пользователя
$password = ''; // пароль

// подключаемся к серверу
$link = mysqli_connect($host, $user, $password, $database)
or die("Ошибка " . mysqli_error($link));

$url = 'https://33tura.ru/flagi';


function getCurl($url){
    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
    $result = curl_exec($curl);
    return $result;
}

$curlPage = getCurl($url);
$pq = phpQuery::newDocument($curlPage);
$data = $pq->find('div.tur-article tbody tr td table tbody tr');
foreach($data as $elem){
    $countryName = pq($elem)->find('a:eq(1)')->text();
    $imgFlag = pq($elem)->find('a:eq(0) img')->attr('src');
    $img = getCurl('https://33tura.ru'.$imgFlag);
    if(!file_exists("image".$imgFlag)){
        file_put_contents("image".$imgFlag, $img);
    }
    $query="SELECT name FROM content3 WHERE name='".$countryName."'";
    $result= mysqli_query($link,$query);
    $data = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
    if(empty($data)){
        $query="INSERT INTO content3 SET name='".$countryName."', img='image".$imgFlag."'";
        mysqli_query($link,$query)or die(mysqli_error($link));
    }
}
?>

Answer 1

probably the FLAG-small folder is missing in the image folder

$dir = dirname(realpath($filename)); // получаем имя папки
if (!is_dir($dir)) mkdir($dir, 0755, true); // создаем 
// и только потом file_put_contents

Answer 2

Here are the parameters for curl, you have problems with SSL
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $urlFrom);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);