Cant open RSS Feed..

[nemesis1931]

Hey there, im having a problem opening xml files from other sites to render rss to html.. on fopen the file pointer is null.. please help..

function render_news($feed_url, $showdetail, $headlinestyle, $detailstyle) {
	global $show_detail, $headline_style, $detail_style, $max, $count, $insideitem, $insideimage;
	$insideitem=false;
	$insideimage=false;
	$count = 0;
	$show_detail = $showdetail;
	$headline_style = $headlinestyle;
	$detail_style = $detailstyle;

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
$fp = @fopen($feed_url,"r");

if ($fp) {
	while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))
   	xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
		   or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",  
			   xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),  
			   xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
	fclose($fp);
} else {
	echo '<span class="'. $detail_style .'">Cannot open stream</span>';
}

// Free up memory used by the XML parser
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
}

[nemesis1931]

Is it the case that i cant open remote files using http and fopen() ?

[Weedpacket]

If you take the error-suppressing @ off of @fopen(), do you get any error messages?

[nemesis1931]

nope none at all. i was reading on php.net that if the server has the fopen wrapper off you cant get external files.. i did a phpinfo() and that was the case.. so i guess i cant get the rss files.. or can i???

[Weedpacket]

Have a look at [man]fsockopen[/man]. You'll need to do a little more work at your end (that would otherwise have been done by the URL wrappers use by fopen() and such) but for you that would basically just involve skipping the http header (everything up to the first blank line).