file_get_contents problem

a_fraile

Hi,

I was wondering whether someone could drop some comments on this problem I am having with the file_get_contents() function.

A few months ago I coded some php script that read an HTML file into a variable for further use by some WYSIWYG editor. The statement I sued was in the form:

$var = file_get_contents(<URL>); // Parameter is an absolute URL enclosed in single quotes

This worked fine until a few days ago, now the function statement returns no string at all.

Here's a checklist of points and alternatives I went through before coming to this forum:

The file in question exists, is in the right location, has the right name and is not empty. Ok;
The file has the appropriate rights (rw). Ok;
allow_url_fopen is 1. Ok;
There are no special characters in the URL;
Alternatively, use the file() function in combination with implode(), to get the entire contents of the file as a string:
```
$varName = implode('', file(<URL>));
```
Ok, but still getting the same result as with file_get_contents(<URL>)
Try specifying the physical location of the file as function parameter. Ok, but at some point the execution of the script will halt, returning only a few lines of the file contents, not the entire contents. Why is that? I mean, if the parameter offset is not specified the pointer should start at the beggining of the file and if the parameter maxlen is not specified then the default should be reading the entire file, right?
Turn the file from HTML to PHP, so as to include it and echo its contents into a variable. Ok, this might help but it's a client requirement that the file be HTML.

I have checked the php documentation for this function (http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php) but haven't found anything that might do the trick.

Some extra info about the configuration of the Web hosting plan:
php version: 4.4.2
Web server: IIS 5.0
OS: Windows 2000

Any suggestions very much appreciated

Regards,

A.Fraile

dalecosp

Try it on another box. If you aren't administering the server, you can never be sure who broke what. How about the latest MS vulnerability patch? Could've broken something.

If the URI isn't "top secret", you could post it, and somebody else could try [man]file_get_contents[/man] on it and see if they have a similar problem......?

a_fraile

Thanks for the suggestions, dalecosp.

I tried using a relative URI (only the file name) as parameter to file_get_contents() and this worked fine.

Regards,
Adal

GiantComm

I am also having a problem with 'file_get_contents()'.

I have:

$data = xml_parse($xml_parser,stripslashes(file_get_contents("php://input")));

This works fine on 2 different hosts but times out on my companies web server (running on IIS).

I dont have access to the error logs and the admin is out until tomorrow. Does anyone have an idea to what it could be?