[Resolved] xml fopen sucess but fread not valid File-Handle.

envycom

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

weekender

post some code? and please, only the relevant stuff!

envycom

$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;

envycom

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.

weekender

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

envycom

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

weekender

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

envycom

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;

weekender

no, like this

ini_set("allow_url_fopen", "1");

envycom

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;

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in travel.php on line 15

weekender

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

weekender

if you wanted to strip spaces automatically without using urlencode, you could do like this

$file = "http://blahblah";
$file = ereg_replace(" ", "%20", $file);

envycom

you are my hero!!! stupid spaces. cheers.

weekender

no worries! don't forget to mark thread resolved tho (link below)