accessing urls with fopen

[ezekielle]

I'm having trouble accessing urls from a remote server.

For example:

 

<?php

$myFile = "http://www.google.com";

$c = fopen($myFile, "r");

echo $c;

?>

 

This times out. I'm not sure how to configure a wrappers to allow or disallow reading from urls.

I'm brand new to php, and I've spent a couple hours surfing, trying to figure this out.

Any suggestions?

[tomasd]

Not sure if that's what you what you want but anyway...

<?php

$ch = curl_init("http://www.example.com/");
$fp = fopen("example_homepage.txt", "w");

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

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

 

Also look at curl manual http://php.net/curl

[DeadEvil]

.. or you can use file_get_contents function

 

<?php
$myFile = "file_get_contents(http://www.google.com/some_files.ext";
echo $myFile;
?>

[Danltn]

Preferred way

 

if (function_exists('curl_init')) {

$ch = curl_init($url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

return curl_exec($ch);

} else {

return file_get_contents($url);

}