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[adnan1983]

I keep getting this warning:

Warning: file(?API=IntlRate&XML=241PackageUnited Arab Emirates): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/foo/public_html/foo/usps/usps.php on line 33

$connection = $server . "?API=IntlRate&XML=<IntlRateRequest%20USERID=\"" . $user_id . "\"%20PASSWORD=\"" . $password . "\">";

	$xml = "<Package%20ID=\"0\">";	
	$xml .= "<Pounds>" . $weight . "</Pounds>";
	$xml .= "<Ounces>" . $ounces . "</Ounces>";
	$xml .= "<MailType>" . $package . "</MailType>";
	$xml .= "<Country>" . $country . "</Country>";
	$xml .= "</Package>";	
	$xml .= "</IntlRateRequest>";


        $connection = $connection . $xml;

		$fp = file($connection, "r"); 

    	while(!feof($fp))
		{ 
        	$result = fgets($fp, 500); 
        	$xml_output .= $result; 
    	} 

        fclose($fp); 

Is there any other way of opening URL's?

[drew010]

while file() is similar to fopen() they act differently.
fopen returns a resource handler, but file just returns an array with each line of the file in an element of the array.
so
$data = file("http://www.yahoo.com");
would put the html contents of yahoo's site into $data. there is no need to use fgets or fread. it does it all for you.

you should try using file_get_contents() for what you are trying to do.

also, it appears that $server may not have anything in it, based on that error message.

[adnan1983]

Still get the same warning.

Warning: fopen(http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=IntlRate&XML=321PackageUnited Arab Emirates ): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/foo/public_html/foo1/usps/usps.php on line 28

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/foo/public_html/foo1/usps/usps.php on line 30

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/foo/public_html/foo1/usps/usps.php on line 33

$connection = "http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=IntlRate&XML=<IntlRateRequest%20USERID=\"" . $user_id . "\"%20PASSWORD=\"" . $password . "\">";

$xml = "<Package%20ID=\"0\"><Pounds>" .$weight . "</Pounds><Ounces>" . $ounces . "</Ounces><MailType>" . $package . "</MailType><Country>" . $country . "</Country></Package></IntlRateRequest>";

$connection = $connection . $xml;
echo "<br>" . $connection . "<br>";

	$fp = file($connection, 'r'); 
	echo $fp[0];

[drew010]

you shouldn't put the 'r' paramater in file. its a read only function.

does this work for you?

$data = file("http://www.yahoo.com");
echo $data[0];

also, if it says 400 bad request, it may have to do with what you are sending in the query string, maybe the data needs to be urlencoded?
echo it out before you call file and see what it looks like. it could be malformed.

[Weedpacket]

You also don't need to [man]fread/man or [man]fclose/man - [man]file/man returns an array containing the stream's contents, not a stream resource. So you shouldn't be trying to fread() or fclose() it.

Also, if it's working - just with errors - and you have Zend's optimiser - use @file() instead of file() to get around with a bug in Zend's product.

Thirdly - well, as drew010 asks, does the URL even refer to a valid resource?