[RESOLVED] fopen and fread trouble

[gotornot]

Hi

i am trying to read a page that i open but i keep getting errors and dont know why any ideas.

The code im using is:

	foreach($url_extq_data as $a)
		{
		$var .=$a;
		}
	// now replace all the tags in the substring and out put the data
	$from = array("{our_track}", "{name}", "{surname}", "{email}", "{title}", "{gender}", "{dobday}", "{dobmonth}", "{dobyear}", "{address}", "{address2}", "{town}", "{county}", "{postcode}", "{tel}", "{mobile}", "{timestampu}", "{timestampr}", "{username}", "{password}", "{company}", "{siteurl}", "{fax}", "{tracking}");
	$to = array("$our_id", "$name", "$surname", "$email", "$title", "$gender", "$dobday", "$dobmonth", "$dobyear", "$address", "$address2", "$town", "$county", "$postcode", "$tel", "$mobile", "$timestampu", "$timestampr", "$username", "$password", "$company", "$siteurl", "$fax", "$trackit");
	$final_url = str_replace($from, $to, $var);
	// open url and wait for response
	$handle = fopen('$final_url', "r");
	echo $final_url;
	##$contents2 = stream_get_contents($handle);
	$contents2 = '';
	$contents2 .= fread($handle, 100);
	$contents2 = trim($contents2);

This is what i get back:

<br /> <b>Warning</b>: fopen($final_url) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/home/s/e/searlco/web/public_html/ms_creg.php</b> on line <b>232</b><br /> http://www.cleanleads.co.uk/lead.aspx?campid=30&suppid=284&HSID=1121&HOID=52&FirstName=Dafydd&LastName=Thomas&AddressLine1=31 Cottage Street&Postcode=SS131HR&Gender=M&DateOfBirth=13/10/1980&emailaddress=[e-mail]&title=Mr&SupplierSourceCode=11866<br /> <b>Warning</b>: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in <b>/home/s/e/searlco/web/public_html/ms_creg.php</b> on line <b>236</b><br /> ER

Any help anyone???? im lost

[dagon]

failed to open stream: No such file or directory

that's the key, the file you are trying to open is not there.

echo $final_url. it looks odd to me.

[gotornot]

hi Dagon

Its a url string.
im trying to submit data to a url and read the return

[dagon]

well if you provide the url, i'll test it locally.

[gotornot]

here is the code as it stands now:

	foreach($url_extq_data as $a)
		{
		$var .=$a;
		}
	// now replace all the tags in the substring and out put the data
	$from = array("{our_track}", "{name}", "{surname}", "{email}", "{title}", "{gender}", "{dobday}", "{dobmonth}", "{dobyear}", "{address}", "{address2}", "{town}", "{county}", "{postcode}", "{tel}", "{mobile}", "{timestampu}", "{timestampr}", "{username}", "{password}", "{company}", "{siteurl}", "{fax}", "{tracking}");
	$to = array("$our_id", "$name", "$surname", "$email", "$title", "$gender", "$dobday", "$dobmonth", "$dobyear", "$address", "$address2", "$town", "$county", "$postcode", "$tel", "$mobile", "$timestampu", "$timestampr", "$username", "$password", "$company", "$siteurl", "$fax", "$trackit");
	$final_url = str_replace($from, $to, $var);
	// open url and wait for response
	$handle = fopen("$final_url", "r");
	echo $final_url;

and this is the output:

<br /> <b>Warning</b>: fopen(http://[e-mail]&amp;title=Mr&amp;SupplierSourceCode=11876) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in <b>/home/s/e/searlco/web/public_html/ms_creg.php</b> on line <b>232</b><br /> http://www.cleanleads.co.uk/lead.aspx?campid=30&suppid=284&HSID=1121&HOID=52&FirstName=Dafydd&LastName=Thomas&AddressLine1=31 Cottage Street&Postcode=LB34 4HR&Gender=M&DateOfBirth=13/10/1980&emailaddress=[e-mail]&title=Mr&SupplierSourceCode=11876ER

i have included the link in their

[dagon]

remove the quotes in fopen:

   $handle = fopen($final_url, "r");

[gotornot]

done that this is the response:

<br /> <b>Warning</b>: fopen([url]http://[e-mail]&amp;title=Mr&amp;SupplierSourceCode=11878[/url]) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in <b>/home/s/e/searlco/web/public_html/ms_creg.php</b> on line <b>232</b><br /> http://www.cleanleads.co.uk/lead.aspx?campid=30&suppid=284&HSID=1121&HOID=52&FirstName=Dafydd&LastName=Thomas&AddressLine1=31 Cottage Street&Postcode=LB34 4HR&Gender=M&DateOfBirth=13/10/1980&emailaddress=[e-mail]&title=Mr&SupplierSourceCode=11878ER

[dagon]

well at least your getting to the remote server now, look at the 400, the query sting is malformed as you have spaces in it you will need to urlencode() the query string

[gotornot]

yeah it was mate it was the whitespace to i replaced it with + abd now all is well thanks very much for your help