[SOLVED] File_get_contents() not working for some files

[aschulz90]

hi, I'm trying to open "local" files with the following script. I'm trying to access the files remotely though and this script works up until the file get contents portion. now file_get_contents() itself is working, it will take the homepage and other remote pages but for some reason this page:

http://ci.durham.nh.us/government/Agendas/historic district commission/2009/hist06042009.html and others like it won't work?

 

I don't know what the problem is but I have a feeling it has to do with IIS. Could permissions be affecting this?

<?php
function get_tables()
{
$host="xx.x.xx.xxx";
$user="xxxx";
$password="xxxx";

mysql_connect($host,$user,$password);
mysql_select_db("agendas");
$rows = mysql_query("SHOW TABLES");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($rows))
{
	$group = $row[0];
	if ($group != "users")
	{
	echo "<h2><u>".$group."</u></h2><br>";
	listsend($group);
	}
}
}

function listsend($group)
{
  $query = "SELECT * FROM `".$group."`";
  $result = mysql_query($query);
          for ($i = 0; $i < mysql_num_rows($result); $i++)
          {
            $row = mysql_fetch_row($result); 
		 $upload = $row[0];
		 $date = $row[1];
		 $Location = $row[2];
		 $docloc = $row[3];
		 $Time = $row[4];
		 uploader($upload, $date, $Location, $docloc, $Time);
          }
}

function uploader($upload, $date, $Location, $docloca, $Time)
{
	$FileName = "http://ci.durham.nh.us/government/".$docloca;
	echo $FileName."<br>";
	$ev_id= mysql_insert_id();
	$icsid="1";
	//******SEE IF FILE EXISTS, GET CONTENTS********//
	if (file_exists($FileName))
		{
		$description= file_get_contents($FileName);
		echo $description."<br>";
		}
	else 
		{
		echo "ERROR<br>";
		}
	//*******************END IF********************//
	//...MORE MYSQL dAtABASE INSERTING SCRIPT...
}

get_tables();
?>

[MadTechie]

And the error is probably

 

<br />

<b>Warning</b>:  file_get_contents(http://ci.durham.nh.us/government/Agendas/historic district commission/2009/hist06042009.html) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

 

 

basically a space isn't a valid part of a URL.. so your need to replace the space with a %20

<?php
$url = "http://ci.durham.nh.us/government/Agendas/historic district commission/2009/hist06042009.html";
$url = str_replace(" ","%20",$url);
echo file_get_contents($url);
?>

 

your could also try encoding it all,

 

here's draft (probably wrong)

<?php
$url = "http://ci.durham.nh.us/government/Agendas/historic district commission/2009/hist06042009.html";
$url = str_replace("%3A",":",implode("/",array_map("rawurlencode",explode("/",$url))));
echo file_get_contents($url);
?>

[aschulz90]

Thanks I figured it out right before you told me because it seemed so weird that ones in a folder called dcat were working but others weren't then I realized, the space was the difference.