reading remote file

[smook]

something i'm missing here but i don't know what... my code looks like this:

$remote = file("http://www.avalidurl.com") or die("Can't read web page."); 
$html = implode('', $remote); 
print($html);

but the file function always dies... just spits out the die text.

Is there something I need turned "on" in php to read urls in the file?

thanks
sm

[dustbuster]

Yes.
fopen wrappers must be on.

The link below goes to the manual page for fopen. Find the link that has fopen wrappers and follow it. It should give you some information.

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

Fopen wrappers are disabled by default in new versions of php for security reasons

Remote Files
http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/features.remote-files.php