Problem with PHP/XML with Tumblr

[rumeye]

I am trying to pull XML content from Tumblr into my website. This is the following code that i have problem with:

 

 

<?php

$request_url = "http://jeffhui.tumblr.com/api/read?start=0&num=1";

$xml = simplexml_load_file($request_url);

$title = $xml->posts->post->{'regular-title'};

$post = $xml->posts->post->{'regular-body'};

$link = $xml->posts->post['url'];

$small_post = substr($post,0,420);

 

echo '<h1>'.$title.'</h1>';

echo '<p>'.$small_post.'</p>';

echo "…";

echo "</br><a target=frame2 href='".$link."'>Read More</a>";

?>

 

Above code work fine within my internal web server, but when I FTP it to my hosting company it stop working. (My hosting company is CGI-BIN + PHP 4 & 5 Support)

 

Jeff

[The Letter E]

Have you checked to see if they even have their php compiled with simpleXML Support?

[premiso]

My bet is going to be that they have fopen url wrappers turned off for security reasons. They will most likely offer curl, so I would use curl to fetch the page, and then use the load_string for simplexml to pull in the data and process it. 

[rumeye]

Just checked with my Hosting company, and they did have url wrappers turned off. So this suggestion by Premiso work, with the following code:

 

 

$url = "http://jeffhui.tumblr.com/api/read?start=0&num=1";

 

$ch = curl_init();

$timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

 

$xml = simplexml_load_string($result);

 

Myself prefer simplexml, so I just called my Hosting company and they did that on there server:

 

allow_url_fopen = On

allow_url_include = On

 

Now everything back to normal =)

 

Thank You guys!