[SOLVED] Feof error

[yuckysocks]

Hi there. Running examples from a webbots book. Here's the code:

 

<?

$target = "http://www.schrenk.com/nostarch/webbots/hello_world.html";

$file_handle = fopen($target, "r");

 

#fetch the file

while (!feof(file_handle))

echo fgets($file_handle, 4096);

fclose($file_handle);

 

?>

 

I ran it from terminal on OS X 10.5 (FWIW) and it spat back infinite lines of:

 

Warning: feof(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource

 

Instead of the expected line-by-line response from the targeted web server.

 

It DOES show the source HTML after each error message, but when the source is done, the errors continue to infinity and I have to close Terminal.

 

I'm a PHP newbie, so go ahead and talk down to me 

 

Thanks for explaining what's happening,

 

Alex

[haku]

Look at this again:

 

while (!feof(file_handle))

 

you're missing something.

[yuckysocks]

hrmm. at -least a semi colon. (isn't it always a semi-colon?) but that still dumped out the errors.

 

I don't know much about the functions (it's a hello world example, after all)

 

file_handle looks like a variable, so I tried it with a $ in front: 

 

while (!feof($file_handle));

 

but that didn't reply with -anything-

 

still stumped!

[haku]

Your error was that you were missing the $.

 

If you aren't getting anything, that is a separate problem with your code, and you should start a new thread, as this error has been solved.

 

Also, you should use <?php instead of <?. The short tag that you are using is sloppy programming as it may stop working suddenly if your host changes their server settings. Or if you move it to a new server, it may not work if they have short tags turned off.