Script Error

[wiseguy]

I have a topsites script that is displaying an error after moving to a new web host. The error reads:
[code]Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /home/karaoket/public_html/top-karaoke-sites/admin/lib/class.functions.php on line 723[/code]

Any ideas on what would cause this?

[Daniel0]

Could you show us the source code? We can't help you if we do not have it.

[ronverdonk]

You either specified the wrong length in the second parameter of the fread or the file is empty.

Ronald  8)

[akitchin]

just as ronald said, wrong second parameter.  my guess is that you're leaving it out:

[quote]string fread ( resource handle, int length )[/quote]

from the php manual - note that the second parameter is NOT optional.  this is usually what an fread() should look like:

$contents = fread($handle, [b]filesize('file name here')[/b]);

[wiseguy]

The script was working before I moved it to a new host. I simply copied the script files and imported the database. The function at line 723 is:
[code]function get_file($url,$read='r') {
$a = fread(fopen($url, $read),filesize ($url));
return $a;[/code]

[Daniel0]

You could just change it to: [code]function get_file($url,$read='r') {
$a = fread(fopen($url, $read));
return $a;[/code]

The filesize thing just gets the total filesize, but fread will by default read everything, so you do not need that.

[wiseguy]

[quote author=Daniel0 link=topic=109070.msg439439#msg439439 date=1158937117]
You could just change it to: [code]function get_file($url,$read='r') {
$a = fread(fopen($url, $read));
return $a;[/code]

The filesize thing just gets the total filesize, but fread will by default read everything, so you do not need that.
[/quote]

That just produced another error
[code]Warning: Wrong parameter count for fread() in /home/karaoket/public_html/top-karaoke-sites/admin/lib/class.functions.php on line 723[/code]

[Daniel0]

Hmm. Apparently fread [i]do[/i] require the length paramenter. Didn't though it did...

Well, this should work: [code]function get_file($url) {
return file_get_contents($url);[/code]