[RESOLVED] fopen problem

Zpixel

i 'm using fopen to test if a domain or page exists or not. it worked till yesterday but today it returns a #resource id 81 for all pages, while yesterday it gave an error for non existent domains. what's wrong today?

any extra settings should be done?

if(!fopen('$link','r'))
show error

Zpixel

this is an error message in another hosting:

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: Couldn't resolve host name in /home/alad/public_html/test.php on line 3

Warning: fopen(http://www.ddd.coms) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: operation failed in /home/alad/public_html/test.php on line 3

echo fopen('http://www.ddd.coms','r');
exit;

bradgrafelman

For the second problem, I've never heard of ".coms" as a valid TLD, so you'll want to verify the URL.

For the first problem, if that is truly the code, then your problem is that variable interpolation won't occur in single-quoted strings, so '$link' is a string containing a literal dollar sign followed by the word 'link'. Since the entire parameter consists of the value of a variable, however, why are you using quotes at all?

Zpixel

the problem was that an error page was returned for non existent pages rather than an error.
for distinguishing between this two, the output of fopen i think can help me.
existent pages returned Resource id #2
non existent pages returned Resource id #3 which is related to openDNS error page.

any other way?