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[Petros Ziogas]

I liked the warm thanks, made my morning.
curl is very powerfull and it is a tool to have in your arsenal. The problem
is that many hosts have it disabled.

Petros Ziogas
http://www.royalblue.gr


On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Leam Hall <leam at reuel.net> wrote:

> 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
>>
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