[Resolved] fopen issue

baddogg

Hello all,

I wrote a script that would open a url and basically 'steal' some of the text from it and subsequently use it in a marquee. It was working great somewhere along the line, it stopped working. Attributing it to something gone wrong with my server as I was majorly messing with it; I decided to nuke my server and re-install it. Needless to say, it didn't help. Here are the problem lines and the error I get at the end of this message.

Somehow, I suspect that fopen is intepreting the url as a local file suddenly and I have no clue as to why.... Any thoughts? Maybe a setting in a place other than php.ini?

Also, thoughts on how to make script lines more legible in this forum would be appreciated...

Thanks for any replies,

Baddogg

$weather = "http://text.www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?ywg";	//set the url to snag
if	(!$remote = fopen($weather, 'r'))	//	check to see if the remote file is available
	{
		$display_weather="Current Weather Conditions are not presently available.";	//error
	}
else.....

Warning: fopen("$weather", "r") - No such file or directory in /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/index.php on line 19

SLAYeeK

You can use fsockopen() function.

For example:

<?php
$fp = fsockopen ("www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
    echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n";
} else {
    fputs ($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: [url]http://text.www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/forecast/city_e.html?ywg\r\n\r\n[/url]");
    while (!feof($fp)) {
        echo fgets ($fp,128);
    }
    fclose ($fp);
}
?>

buttery

Hmmmm...and this is script true....(tested my)

<?php
$fd = fopen( $link, "r" );
while(!feof($fd)){
$buffer .= fgetc($fd);
}
fclose( $fd );
echo $buffer;
?>

baddogg

Thanks for both of your replies, I tried both and they both worked in place of the segment that applied. I was puzzed and tried my original script and the script started working again. Knock yourself out! Strangely I have no explanation for what or why but I'll take it. I did learn a couple of new approaches from you guys.

Cheers