Can anyone suggest why?
Warning: fopen("http://dg.travelnow.com/external/xmlinterface.jsp?cid=66847&xml=<ServiceRequest method='getAllRegions'>", "r") - Success in /travel.php on line 11
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /travel.php on line 13
post some code? and please, only the relevant stuff!
$file = htmlspecialchars("http://dg.travelnow.com/external/xmlinterface.jsp?cid=66847&xml=<ServiceRequest method='getAllRegions'>");
echo $file;
$file = fopen($file, "r");
echo $file;
$file = fread($file, 4096);
echo $file;
exit;
i am getting a sucess on the fopen, so it's kind of confusing why the fread wouldn't work. the url format is required by the xml feed.
geez, nothing like using one variable name for everything!
try using urlencode() instead of htmlspecialchars() - the first is used for converting strings to use as urls, the latter for converting strings to output as html
Tried that on my way to htmlspecialchars. Gives this result.
htmlspecialchars fopen returns sucess, doesn't that mean it worked?
http%3A%2F%2Fdg.travelnow.com%2Fexternal%2Fxmlinterface.jsp%3Fcid%3D66847%26xml%3D%3CServiceRequest+method%3D%27getAllRegions%27%3E
Warning: fopen("http%3A%2F%2Fdg.travelnow.com%2Fexternal%2Fxmlinterface.jsp%3Fcid%3D66847%26xml%3D%3CServiceRequest+method%3D%27getAllRegions%27%3E", "r") - No such file or directory in travel.php on line 12
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in travel.php on line 14
yeah that's more like it - use urlencode
i think it may be that the setting allow_url_fopen is disabled in your php.ini - this says whether or not a fopen can take a url as it's filename, not just a local file.
set it in your php.ini, or if you can't then use ini_set
to keep on with the $file theme. 
Would this be what i would need to do?
$file = urlencode("http://dg.travelnow.com/external/xmlinterface.jsp?cid=66847&xml=<ServiceRequest method='getAllRegions'>");
ini_set($file,$file);
echo $file;
$file = fopen($file, "r");
echo $file;
$file = fread($file, 4096);
echo $file;
exit;
no, like this
ini_set("allow_url_fopen", "1");
No such file or directory:
ini_set("allow_url_fopen", "1");
$file = urlencode("http://dg.travelnow.com/external/xmlinterface.jsp?cid=66847&xml=<ServiceRequest method='getAllRegions'>");
echo $file;
$file = fopen($file, "r");
echo $file;
$file = fread($file, 4096);
echo $file;
exit;
http%3A%2F%2Fdg.travelnow.com%2Fexternal%2Fxmlinterface.jsp%3Fcid%3D66847%26xml%3D%3CServiceRequest+method%3D%27getAllRegions%27%3E
Warning: fopen("http%3A%2F%2Fdg.travelnow.com%2Fexternal%2Fxmlinterface.jsp%3Fcid%3D66847%26xml%3D%3CServiceRequest+method%3D%27getAllRegions%27%3E", "r") - No such file or directory in travel.php on line 13
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in travel.php on line 15
ok mate got it working!
<?php
ini_set("allow_url_fopen", "1");
$file = "http://dg.travelnow.com/external/xmlinterface.jsp?cid=66847&xml=<ServiceRequest&20method='getAllRegions'>";
echo $file;
$file = fopen($file, "r");
echo $file;
$file = fread($file, 4096);
echo $file;
exit;
?>
first i removed the urlencode altogether
i got a HTTP/400 Bad Request.
then i noticed a space in the url which was possibly terminating the string early, so i replaced this with %20 (a urlencoded space)
and tada! it works. don't know why that happened
should work on yours too
adam
if you wanted to strip spaces automatically without using urlencode, you could do like this
$file = "http://blahblah";
$file = ereg_replace(" ", "%20", $file);
you are my hero!!! stupid spaces. cheers.
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