Opening RSS file from Remote

blanius

For some reason I can't open an RSS file using the following but it works fine for regular pages.

$fp=@fopen($url,'r')
		or die ("Just couldn't do it for ya");
	while ($line = fgets($fp,1024)){
		echo $line;
	}
	fclose($fp);

Is there something I need to do different to get an XML Rss file.

AstroTeg

I would recommend taking out the '@' before fopen and see what error you're getting. I'd bet there is an issue with the $url you are using.

blanius

That's not it. I did try without and it just never returns ANYTHING.

with the die it doesn't die either just sits there. and eventually times out

AstroTeg

And you can open the URL fine in your browser? Are you trying to run fopen() from a Windows machine?

blanius

Yeah url is fine and yes My server is on Windows. Like I said I can open an html page fine this way

url is
http://broadcast.organicframework.com/p/343.xml

try it
http://bretlanius.com/flash/fetchpage.php?page=http://broadcast.organicframework.com/p/343.xml

then try some know html or php page it works fine

AstroTeg

I believe thats a Windows limitation issue. Its not documented with fopen(), but I could have sworn I saw somewhere on php.net something that said its a limitation of Windows. Check out curl - it'll work on Windows.