Passing two variables to function?

[msimonds]

I am having a problem and cannot figure out why the values of two vairables are not being passed to a function to retrieve a map for a foreign city and country

it shows this error:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://site.mysite.com/spmp/MPClient?type=poi&SRC=sp&input=rome&country=italy) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /spfs/superpages/docs/sp/hotels/foreign_prop.php on line 191:

which returns the longitude and latitude for the vaule of rome, italy

but when i cut and paste the URL from that error into the browser, the HTTP request works:

[url]http://site.mysite..com/spmp/MPClient?type=poi&SRC=sp&input=rome&country=italy[/url]

Latitude = 41893327, Longitude = 12500916, error = 2, address_show = Rome, Lazio, Italy

here is that function:

function get_map($S, $T){

$coordinates = file_get_contents('http://site.mysite..com/spmp/MPClient?type=poi&SRC=sp&input=' . strtolower(urlencode($T)) . '&country=' . strtolower(urlencode($S)));

preg_match("/Latitude = (.*?), Longitude = (.*?),/is", $coordinates, $matches);
$latitude = $matches[1];
$longitude = $matches[2];

$image_width = 200;
$image_height = 250;

$image_location = file_get_contents("http://site.mysite..com:9080/spmp/MPClient?type=worldurl&SRC=sp&width=$image_width&height=$image_height&x=$longitude&y=$latitude&level=9&cust_x=$longitude&cust_y=$latitude&poi=My+Place");
$image_location = str_replace('url = ', '', $image_location);

return $image_location;
}

not sure what I am doing wrong, any help would be appreciated

thanks in advance
Mike

[bpat1434]

try using [man]fopen[/man] and [man]fread[/man] to write the contents of the HTML file to a string....