fopen problem

[sdbindoff]

Hi

 

Im in the middle of creating a flash movie with various movie clips loading variables from a php file. The problem lies when i try and fopen and read an xml file from external webpages (ie. http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml) within my php file.

 

Have done numerous tests, one in particular was creating my own xml file and testin on the server:

 

1. Created xml file and upload it to the same directory as the php file

 

2. $fo = fopen("bbcrss.xml", "r"); returns true

 

3. $fo = fopen("http://www.mydomain.co.uk/bbcrss.xml", "r"); returns false

 

This is just one of many tests i have done but explains the problem in best detail.

 

Sam

[per1os]

www.php.net/fopen

 

allow_url_fopen I believe has to be set to on in the php.ini file or an .htaccess file or with www.php.net/ini_set  inside the php file.

 

PHP will check to make sure that allow_url_fopen is enabled

[sdbindoff]

Thanks for the reply frost, i have previously checked and the allow_url_fopen was set to On so thats one solution down ???

[per1os]

www.php.net/file_get_contents

 

or

 

www.php.net/file

 

Did you try using those functions instead of fopen ?

 

Also is fopen producing an error message?

[sdbindoff]

will try them functions now, but how do you check whether fopen is producing a error message?

[per1os]

set www.php.net/error_reporting at the top of the page to E_ALL and make sure display_errors is on, if not set it on with ini_set at the top of the php page.

[sdbindoff]

i have set the error_reporting to E_ALL, the display_errors to 1 and the allow_url_fopen to 1 at the top of the file and it comes up with:

 

Warning: fopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in /home/memorial/public_html/xml/test.php on line 65

 

Warning: fopen(http://www.wallsendmemorialhall.co.uk/xml/bbcrss.xml): failed to open stream: Connection refused in /home/memorial/public_html/xml/test.php on line 65

[per1os]

Sounds like your server is blocking outbound connections to other sites. Try the file and file_get_contents see if that works. If not see if www.php.net/CURL is installed on your server, if it is read through that and try using CURL to grab the data.

[sdbindoff]

Ive got to leave work now, thanks very much for your help frost, i will more than likely be back on tomorrow

 

Regards Sam

[sdbindoff]

So..........ive tried file and file_get_contents, no luck. CURL is installed on the server and i have tried the example code from www.php.net/CURL that writes a new text file to the server containing whatever was in the file stated, this is the code i used:

 

<?php

$ch = curl_init("http://www.google.co.uk/");
$fp = fopen("example.txt", "w");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);

?>

 

and example.txt contains nothing.

 

The file and code i have been trying to get working using fopen is:

 

$fo = fopen("http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml","r");

 

returns false, if anybody would like to give it a try and let me know if it works for you that would be great.

[sdbindoff]

anybody mind testing the code for me?

 

<?php

if ($fo = fopen("http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml","r"))
{
  echo '1';
}
else
{
  echo '2';
}

?>

 

Im getting 2!?

[sdbindoff]

can anybody please paste the code above and run it and post back what number they got?

 

regards sam

[per1os]

can anybody please paste the code above and run it and post back what number they got?

 

regards sam

 

I think your SOL, your server blocked the remote reading of files. If you are on a shared server, chances are you cannot get them to change that either and init_set will not work.

 

BTW, the above returns 1 for me, but I also know my server allows me to read remote files.