NYCPHP Meetup

[Leam Hall]

Brent, you are a wonderful person! No matter what Hans, Mitch, David, 
and maybe a few others say...    :)

Wasn't able to change anything that would allow file_get_contents but 
the curl code you provided works like a charm! This is a growth point 
for me so it's nice to be successful for a change.

Thanks!

Leam

Brent Baisley wrote:
> You should file_get_contents to retrieve URLs, which is what you seem
> to be trying to do. It doesn't handle failures (i.e. timeout,
> redirects) very well at all. You should use curl if you need to
> retrieve a remote file.
> 	$url = 'http://yourfile.com';
> 	$ch = curl_init();
> 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
> 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
> 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
> 	$result = curl_exec($ch);
> 	if ( $result===false ) {
> 		echo curl_errno($ch).' '.curl_error($ch);
> 	}
> 	curl_close($ch);
> 
> Obviously you would want to do something different in the event there
> is an error. Hopefully curl is enabled on your hosting server.
> 
> Brent Baisley
>