file_get_contents not working

[therealwesfoster]

Why isn't this working?

 

<?php
$page = file_get_contents("http://google.com/");
echo $page;
?>

 

I just get a blank page with nothing in the source... ??? Whats up with it?

[kratsg]

<?php

if($page = file_get_contents("http://google.com/")){

echo $page;

} else {

echo "Uh-Oh! We cannot read this page!";

}

?>

[therealwesfoster]

returns Uh-Oh! We cannot read this page!   

 

I've done this before.. what gives?

[trq]

Alot of hosts disable fopen_wrappers which are needed to open remote files.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

If you check your web server log for errors or turn on full php error reporting, you will probably find out why it is failing.