php and proxy

[kranthi117]

i want to use a http proxy to connect to the internet via php

<?php
  $context = stream_context_create(
    array('http'=>
      array('proxy'=>'http://proxy.example.com:5100')
    ));

  $contents = file_get_contents('http://www.somesite.com/pat/to/file',
false, $context);
?>

this is all what i need except that it gives the following error

 

Unable to find the socket transport "http" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

 

but i want to use a proxy every time i connect to the internet

for example i want to use http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ via a proxy

 

moreover i want to use a socks proxy along with mail function to bypass my ISP's firewall which blocks port 25

[kranthi117]

ny solution???

[Ken2k7]

I may be wrong here, but do you mean

 

fopen("URL", "r", false $context);

 

Then you need to fix your $context to be something like:

$context = stream_context_create(

array('http'=>

    array('method'=> "POST"

            'header' => "SOME HEADER HERE"));

 

It's like cURL, which I'm not an expert at.

[kranthi117]

well my problem is that i want to acess the internet through PHP(which is executed through apache on local computer) and php should connect to internet through a proxy server

i need a configuration in php.ini(or some thing like that) which does the exact work of CURLOPT_PROXY in cURL