Resource id #6 weird error for simple code

[gesseg]

Hi Im getting a weird error for this simple bit of code. Error is:"Resource id #6" code is here: http://pastebin.com/T4P44d6h

[trq]

$band is a file handle resource, you need to pass it to fread.

[Alex]

That's not an error, it's just not what you expected. fopen returns a resource, not the data you're expecting. For that you'll need to use fread. Or instead you can more simply use file_get_contents:

 

$file = 'http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/sandi-g/topartists.txt';
$data = explode(',', file_get_contents($file));
// ...