Saving web version of RSS to local file in PHP

[gwledig]

HI I'm working with Sharepoint which provides some pages as RSS, but the link is very messy and doesn't show up as an xml file which makes accessing the feed very hard for doing things like displaying RSS on a public Web page. Basically I want to save the RSS url/page contents (the feed url) to a file (.xml) which seems to work better with rss readers and stuff.

so here is a script I've been trying to use to basically save the page as an xml file:

<?php
$remoteFileContents=file_get_contents("https://vocal-external.liv.ac.uk/sites/catherallp-test/news/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List={C1F668FA-F047-427F-93B0-8344EA008518}");
$localFilePath = "C:\Mowes\www";
$localFileName = "ok.xml";
$newFileHandle = fopen($localFilePath."/".$localFileName, "w");
fwrite($newFileHandle, $remoteFileContents);
fclose($newFileHandle);
?>

Unfortunately I get this error when running the php:

Warning: file_get_contents(https://vocal-external.liv.ac.uk/sites/catherallp-test/news/_layouts/listfeed.aspx?List={C1F668FA-F047-427F-93B0-8344EA008518}) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\Mowes\www\saverss.php on line 2

I've been using MOWES version of apache server which uses php 4 and also has 5 (I assume it's using 5).

Any ideas much appreciated!!!

Gwledig

[sneakyimp]

file_get_contents might be choking on the httpS part of the url. try http instead and see if that fixes it. If not, then your PHP install might not permit the opening of remote urls with the fopen/file_get_contents function. You can check that with :

$allow_url_fopen =  init_get('allow_url_fopen');
if ($allow_url_fopen) {
  echo "allow_url_fopen is permitted\n";
} else {
  echo "allow_url_fopen IS NOT PERMITTED\n";
}