How to use Curl insted of fopen?

fizone

Hi,

This my first post here. I've been searching for an answer and find some but couldn't use them. What ever I do with these codes it will give me error.

My host has unactivated fopen for security reason and my Music script from fascript.com gives me error for that. I appreciate any help on this, please.

Here is the code:

// This is Template engine 7rang
// This engine is maked by www.fascript.com
// dont change 
function read($url)
{
$pointer = fopen("$url", "r"); 
   if ($pointer)
	 {
     while (!feof($pointer))
	 {
         $preTEXT = fgets($pointer, 999);
         $TEXT = $TEXT . $preTEXT;
         }
     fclose($pointer);
	 }
return $TEXT;
}

planetsim

Something like this should work

function read( $url )
{
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	$body = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	return $body;
}

Most of this is in the manual Id suggest you read up on cURL.

fizone

planetsim, thank you very much. It works now.

Great help, thanks again.

MarkR

fizone wrote:
My host has unactivated fopen for security reason

They are desparately naive.

Get them to reactivate it, or get a better host.

It is ALWAYS better to write the code you want and fix the hosting to cope rather than working around hosting problems.

Hosting is cheap; developer time expensive.

Mark

fizone

Thanks MarkR,

But we have had some hackers on our sites and ask them to secure server better. One of the solutions was to disabaleing fopen!

If you have better way to scure server or php please let me know. I can tell them.

Regards.

planetsim

MarkR wrote:
They are desparately naive.

Get them to reactivate it, or get a better host.

It is ALWAYS better to write the code you want and fix the hosting to cope rather than working around hosting problems.

Hosting is cheap; developer time expensive.

Mark

Well to some extent this is true however using fopen to get data from a URL is not really the best way about things as it is intended as a filesystem function. Another alternative to cURL is fsockopen