Problems with fopen(), two in a row - only one works

[ElecTroniXpress]

I have a forum, and when someone registers I want them to get a subdomain directed to their profile in the format username.mydomain.com. I figured out that all I needed to do was visit two pages on my cpanel so I did
(cPanel username, server ip and password hidden for security reasons)

<?php 
$add_subdomain = fopen("http://username:here_password@SERVER_IP:2082/frontend/x2/subdomain/doadddomain.html?domain=".$user."&rootdomain=mydomain.com"); 
fclose($add_subdomain); 
?>

This part would work every time and create the subdomain, but to create the redirection I used the same idea but for some reason the line was never executed:

<?php 
$add_redirection = fopen("http://username:here_password@SERVER_IP:2082/frontend/x2/subdomain/dosaveredirect.html?domain=".$user."_mydomain.com&url=www.mydomain.com/forum/index.php?showuser=".$userid); 
fclose($add_redirection); 
?>

I talked to my hosts tech support and they said that there were no restricitons to multiple fopen's. Can someone take a look and tell me what wrong? Thanks.

[ElecTroniXpress]

anyone?

[elToro]

I noticed the following comment on the PHP Manual, though I don't know why it might effect your second statement but not your first:

Quick tip. If using fopen to make http requests that contain a querystring, it is advised that you urlencode() your values, else characters like @ can make fopen (or whatever wrapper it is using) throw an error.

That may not be your problem, but I thought it was worth noting.

When you say that line doesn't execute, do you mean the interpreter never gets that far (so if you replaced it with, say, echo "Hello!"; it wouldn't work) or does the fopen throw an error. If so, what is the error?