CURL and PHP4.0.2

Anon

I know this question has been asked before, but I can't seem to find the answer.

This is the code I copied off from the php site:

                   $ch = curl_init($url); 
                   $fp = fopen($filename, "w"); 
                   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp); 
                   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); 
                   curl_exec($ch); 
                   curl_close ($ch); 
                   fclose ($fp);

but when I ran this snippet of code, Apache gives an error message: <b>"The document contained no data. Try again later..."</b>. Does anyone know what's causing this error??

TIA

Anon

You opened file "$fp" for writing (specified by the "w" parameter) and then passed it to curl_setopt with the CURLOPT_INFILE parameter which expects a file opened for reading. (With the CURLOPT_INFILE option you are telling it to read and send the file specified by "$fp" but it cannot read it since you opened it for writing).

Jack

Anon

A typo, it should have been:

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);

Anyway, that's not the problem, the error occurs at:

$ch = curl_init($url);

Thanks for pointing out the typo though...

Anon

What does $url contain?

Anon

$curl = "http://www.php.net";
$filename = "temp.html";

Anon

So your code looks something like this, right?
<?
$url = "http://www.php.net";
$filename = "c:\inetpub\temp.html";
$ch = curl_init($url);
$fp = fopen($filename, "w");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
fclose ($fp);
?>

If this is the case, then Apache is right. This will return an empty document to the browser because you are sticking the contents of the document into the file not sending it to the browser.

Try this code:

<?
$url = "http://www.php.net";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>

This will send the fetched document to your browser (which should eliminate Apache's message that the document is empty). If you do want to put it into a file, then try echoing something back to the browser as a test:

<?
$url = "http://www.php.net";
$filename = "temp.html";
$ch = curl_init($url);
$fp = fopen($filename, "w");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
fclose ($fp);
echo "test.";
?>