file_get_contents function problem

[ahmedtaufiq]

I am using the following code

<?php

$url="http://www.google.com";

$data = file_get_contents( $url );

echo $data;

echo strlen($data);

?>

It works well on my local host but when i upload it to my web domain, file_get_contents gives an empty string as output.

Why this happens? Any idea to solve this problem

[NogDog]

Add this to the start of the code to see if it tells you why:

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);  // set to 0 for production version
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// rest of code...
?>

It may be that your host is configured with [man]allow_url_fopen[/man] turned off.

[ahmedtaufiq]

After adding your prescribed code, i got the following error revealed :

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.google.com) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/www/blinkideas.freehostia.com/anus/jack.php on line 13

[ahmedtaufiq]

Any Idea how to deal with this error ?

[Paavero]

Use cURL instead?

[ahmedtaufiq]

Curl also does not work.

i have got another free domain where such file_get_contents work but the problem is , there strstr function does not work. it gives error "wrong parameter".

i dont know what happens there. when i use this file on local host it works perfectly.

Any idea to solve this problem ?

or anyone know any free domain host where all php functions are supported ???