curl webpage into string variable help

[MDanz]

i'm trying this below but it isn't working, the page is coming up blank.

 

<?php
$url = 'http://www.realgm.com';
function get_url_contents($url){
        $crl = curl_init();
        $timeout = 5;
        curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
        curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt ($crl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
        $ret = curl_exec($crl);
        curl_close($crl);
        return $ret;
}

?>

[devofash]

Have you got curl enabled?

 

If yes, I cant see you calling the function in the your script. Are you calling it?

[MDanz]

i got it from here

 

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/programming/php-get-the-contents-of-a-web-page-rss-feed-or-xml-file-into-a-string-variable/

 

how do i call a function?  i'm still a newbie when it comes to coding.

[devofash]

put the below line outside the function.

 

echo get_url_contents($url);