Wordpress - Turn a URL into an Attachment / Post ID

Massively improved function developed for plugin heavy on images:

if ( ! function_exists( 'get_attachment_id' ) ) {
    /**
     * Get the Attachment ID for a given image URL.
     *
     * @link   http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/7094
     *
     * @param  string $url
     *
     * @return boolean|integer
     */
    function get_attachment_id( $url ) {

        $dir = wp_upload_dir();

        // baseurl never has a trailing slash
        if ( false === strpos( $url, $dir['baseurl'] . '/' ) ) {
            // URL points to a place outside of upload directory
            return false;
        }

        $file  = basename( $url );
        $query = array(
            'post_type'  => 'attachment',
            'fields'     => 'ids',
            'meta_query' => array(
                array(
                    'key'     => '_wp_attached_file',
                    'value'   => $file,
                    'compare' => 'LIKE',
                ),
            )
        );

        // query attachments
        $ids = get_posts( $query );

        if ( ! empty( $ids ) ) {

            foreach ( $ids as $id ) {

                // first entry of returned array is the URL
                if ( $url === array_shift( wp_get_attachment_image_src( $id, 'full' ) ) )
                    return $id;
            }
        }

        $query['meta_query'][0]['key'] = '_wp_attachment_metadata';

        // query attachments again
        $ids = get_posts( $query );

        if ( empty( $ids) )
            return false;

        foreach ( $ids as $id ) {

            $meta = wp_get_attachment_metadata( $id );

            foreach ( $meta['sizes'] as $size => $values ) {

                if ( $values['file'] === $file && $url === array_shift( wp_get_attachment_image_src( $id, $size ) ) )
                    return $id;
            }
        }

        return false;
    }
}

All those complex functions can be reduced to one simple function:

attachment_url_to_postid()

You only need to parse the image URL to retrieve the attachment ID:

$attachment_id = attachment_url_to_postid( $image_url );
echo $attachment_id;

That's all you need.

I modified Rarst's code to allow you to match just the filename instead of the full path. This is helpful if you are about to sideload the image if it does not exist. Currently this only works if file names are unique but I will be adding a hash check later to help with images that have the same filename.

function get_attachment_id( $url, $ignore_path = false ) {

if ( ! $ignore_path ) {

    $dir = wp_upload_dir();
    $dir = trailingslashit($dir['baseurl']);

    if( false === strpos( $url, $dir ) )
        return false;
}

$file = basename($url);

$query = array(
    'post_type' => 'attachment',
    'fields' => 'ids',
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key'     => '_wp_attached_file',
            'value'   => $file,
            'compare' => 'LIKE',
        )
    )
);

$ids = get_posts( $query );

foreach( $ids as $id ) {
    $match = array_shift( wp_get_attachment_image_src($id, 'full') );
    if( $url == $match || ( $ignore_path && strstr( $match, $file ) ) )
        return $id;
}

$query['meta_query'][0]['key'] = '_wp_attachment_metadata';
$ids = get_posts( $query );

foreach( $ids as $id ) {

    $meta = wp_get_attachment_metadata($id);

    foreach( $meta['sizes'] as $size => $values ) {
        if( $values['file'] == $file && ( $ignore_path || $url == array_shift( wp_get_attachment_image_src($id, $size) ) ) )
            return $id;
    }
}

return false;
}