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

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

fsockopen, curl, fopen, file_get_conten ts,
Oct 23 '09 #1
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Dormilich
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fsockopen - used by the mail script
file_get_conten ts - if I need the complete file content (same server)
Oct 23 '09 #2
Markus
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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_conten ts(): read data of a file

As an estimate, I would say I use file_get_conten ts() the most, just because I most often need to read the data from a file.
Oct 23 '09 #3
jeddiki
290 Contributor
Thanks very much for your replies

anyone else ?
Oct 23 '09 #4

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