Possible to retrieve a value via a URL?

[mikie46]

I have a file on my server called version.txt
It simply contains the current version number of my application.

I would like to retrieve the version number when my application runs to check the version of whats running to the version that currently available.

Its located at http://mydomain.com/files/version.txt

How would i retrieve the value of version.txt from my php application?
Is there a way i could do this? Keep in mind the application is not running on the same server as where version.txt is located but it should be able to get the value via a url somehow.

Thanks

[NogDog]

If the allow_url_fopen setting is enabled, you can use [man]file_get_contents[/man] to get get the text. If not, you could use the [man]cURL[/man] functions.

[sarah]

This should read the first line of the version file into a variable called version.

<?php
$fileContentArray = file("http://mydomain.com/files/version.txt");
$version=$fileContentArray[0];

[mikie46]

Both curl and fsock is available. Could you give me a code example?

[mikie46]

sarah wrote:

This should read the first line of the version file into a variable called version.

<?php
$fileContentArray = file("http://mydomain.com/files/version.txt");
$version=$fileContentArray[0];

Thank you, ill give that a try, appreciate it.

[NogDog]

If allow_url_fopen is not enabled, therefore making file() or file_get_contents() unusable for access via URL, then see Example #1 on this page for doing it with cURL (which may be a bit faster, anyway).

[mikie46]

Thank you.

[subashvns]

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