[RESOLVED] file_get_contents

teguh123

Is there other better ways to get content of another website and put it in a variable?

Also, I think I used to get a warning ever time file_get_contents failed. However, I no longer does. Why?

Is there a way to specify timeout? So if file_get_contents cannot get the file within 5 seconds then it'll move on?

laserlight

Is there other better ways to get content of another website and put it in a variable?

It depends on what you are trying to do, but generally file_get_contents() should be pretty good.

Also, I think I used to get a warning ever time file_get_contents failed. However, I no longer does. Why?

Could be a change in your php.ini configuration file.

Is there a way to specify timeout? So if file_get_contents cannot get the file within 5 seconds then it'll move on?

If you want to specify timeout, you could consider [man]fsockopen/man instead.

el_timm

teguh123 wrote:
Is there other better ways to get content of another website and put it in a variable?

file_get_contents() is the preferred way to fopen().

teguh123 wrote:
Also, I think I used to get a warning ever time file_get_contents failed. However, I no longer does. Why?

You can dynamically down your error_reporting level. Use error_reporting() for that.

teguh123 wrote:
Is there a way to specify timeout? So if file_get_contents cannot get the file within 5 seconds then it'll move on?

Consider using PEAR HTTP_Request for more advanced URL fetching.

teguh123

Thanks. By the way, I don't think I have ever put error_reporting() on my site nor do I ever change my php.ini

I did play around with .htaccess

Is this why my error reporting are gone?

EPJS

Well what version of PHP are you using? I'm not sure if this is default or something the host did, but on one of the sites I use that has both PHP4 and PHP5, they don't display error reports when using PHP5.

(on the site, same script, test.php4 displays an error report, test.php5 doesn't)

teguh123

I think I remember doing something to remove those warning. But I really forget.

bradgrafelman

Did you place an '@' sign in front of file_get_contents() ? The '@' sign suppresses error messages for a particular function/variable use/etc.

Also, do a phpinfo() and look at the values for "display_errors" and "error_reporting". What are they?

teguh123

No.

But never mind. I can always reinstate the whole thing via error_reporting