[Resolved] problem with fopen after upgrade to 4.3.4?

chriswheat

Hello,

My host upgraded php from 4.3.3 to 4.3.4 🙁
before the upgrade my scripts were working perfectly.
after the upgrade it randomly works. Meaning if you call the script 1 out of 4-5 time the script works. This leads me to beleive it is an issue with the upgrade?? Here is the script:

$open = fopen("http://travel.state.gov/warnings_list.html", "r");
$read = fread($open, 15000);
fclose($open);
$search = eregi("the subject country. </font></font>(.*)<CENTER>", $read, $printing);

$printing[1] = str_replace("href=\"", "href=\"http://www.passageinternational.com/redirect.php?url=http://travel.state.gov/", $printing[1]);

Further more I think that it might be the eregi() that is randomly working and not the fopen()?

Any one else having this issue or maybee a different way of doing the above code?

Many thanks
Chris

Weedpacket

And what happens the other 3-4 times?

Can't help you much if we don't know what debugging you've tried already and what the results were.

chriswheat

Appartly it was with the fread.

after reading php.net for scaping large amounts you should use the following code:

$handle = fopen("http://travel.state.gov/warnings_list.html", "rb");
$read = "";
do {
$data = fread($handle, 8192);
if (strlen($data) == 0) {
break;
}
$read .= $data;
} while(true);
fclose ($handle);
$search = eregi("the subject country. </font></font>(.*)<CENTER>", $read, $printing);
$printing[1] = str_replace("href=\"", "href=\"http://www.passageinternational.com/redirect.php?url=http://travel.state.gov/", $printing[1]);

The old code worked fine before the upgrade but after reading it probly should not have. I guess it has to do with packets?

Any way after changing my code (to what it should have been) 😉 it all works agian.

Thank You
Chris