Which do you use most and why: fsockopen, curl, fopen, file_get_contents

Out of these, which one do you use most and why ?

fsockopen, curl, fopen, file_get_contents,

re: Which do you use most and why: fsockopen, curl, fopen, file_get_contents

fsockopen - used by the mail script
file_get_contents - if I need the complete file content (same server)

re: Which do you use most and why: fsockopen, curl, fopen, file_get_contents

They all have their own tasks.

• fsockopen(): open a socket connection
• fopen(): open a file for reading/writing
• cURL: does lots of different things. I generally use it for sending form data programatically
• file_get_contents(): read data of a file

As an estimate, I would say I use file_get_contents() the most, just because I most often need to read the data from a file.

re: Which do you use most and why: fsockopen, curl, fopen, file_get_contents

Thanks very much for your replies

anyone else ?