Fopen Issue In Php 5.1.4

[sherife]

I have a script that parses xml and it used to work in php 4.. Now my host upgraded
to php 5.1.4 and it always times out when it does a fopen ( see message below )

I looked in the php site for doc with little help.
do you know if there is another function that I can use instead of fopen or have any ideas what
I can do or where I can look?

Thank you much.


Warning: fopen( http://.....) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /home/sw/public_html/functions/ParseXML.php on line 10

[Drumminxx]

if all your doing is parsing xml then you can use file_get_contents.

if your writing to xml then you'll need to use fopen.

as to the stream problem the file path is causing this. check if your php setting "allow_url_fopen" is off and if it is and you cannnot change the setting then try:

$_ENV['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . 'path/ofmyfile.xml'

I just use file_get_contents though and it works everytime for parsing xml

[sherife]

Hi Drumminxx

Thank you for your response.

My setting for allow_url_fopen is On under local and master value.
I tried using file_get_contents and got the same timeout problem like with fopen.

Could there be another setting that I need to look at?