PHP 5.2 hangs on this line of code. Why?

hydn

<?php $fb = facebook_shares("http://www.facebook.com/redbull"); ?>

Here's the full code:

<?php function facebook_shares($url){

$fql  = "SELECT url, normalized_url, share_count, like_count, comment_count, ";
$fql .= "total_count, commentsbox_count, comments_fbid, click_count FROM ";
$fql .= "link_stat WHERE url = '".$url."'";

$apifql="https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?format=json&query=".urlencode($fql);
$fb_json=file_get_contents($apifql);
return json_decode($fb_json);
}
?>


<?php $fb = facebook_shares("http://www.facebook.com/redbull"); ?>
<?php echo $fb[0]->share_count; ?>

Why would the code hang and the page not load? Any ideas?

Thanks

dagon

if you take the result of $apifql and put it in your web browser, what happens ?

hydn

Sorry where do you get the result?

dagon

In the function change:

    $apifql="https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?format=json&query=".urlencode($fql);
    $fb_json=file_get_contents($apifql);

 $apifql="https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?format=json&query=".urlencode($fql);
echo $apifql;
exit();

hydn

That does now work. Now the script shows:
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?format=json&query=SELECT+url%2C+normalized_url%2C+share_count%2C+like_count%2C+comment_count%2C+total_count%2C+commentsbox_count%2C+comments_fbid%2C+click_count+FROM+link_stat+WHERE+url+%3D+%27

Is you test the script first?? 🙂

As you see it works but just not on one of my servers. It hangs.

hydn

Did you test the script first?? before suggesting changes.

dagon

full error checking and display on ? some cheap hosts could have external file_get_contents() disabled

hydn

ahh ok thx

and file_get_contents() can be enabled how? I'm on a dedicated server.

bradgrafelman

hydn;11010099 wrote:
file_get_contents() can be enabled how? I'm on a dedicated server.

It's enabled by default as it's part of the core PHP (e.g. it's not provided by any plugin). The only way to disable it would be to add it to the disable_functions directive. Note its functionality could also be limited by directives such as allow_url_fopen.

Of course, nothing above should cause PHP to "hang". What is the exact error message you're getting?

hydn

Yup allow_url_fopen is enabled in php.ini

No error just hangs browser spins and page remains blank.

Works on one server but not the other.