parsing RSS feeds where allow_url_fopen=OFF on php 4.4.4??

[Paul]

I need to get, parse and display RSS feeds while having the ini setting,
allow_url_fopen = Off.

I used to use (in version 4.1) domxml_open_mem() but it's not longer
available in this verison for some reason - and cannot install pecl
extensions.

Any ideas? Any example scripts?

Thanks!!

[Sanders Kaufman]

Paul wrote:

I need to get, parse and display RSS feeds while having the ini setting,
allow_url_fopen = Off.

I used to use (in version 4.1) domxml_open_mem() but it's not longer
available in this verison for some reason - and cannot install pecl
extensions.

Any ideas? Any example scripts?

Offload the URL retrieval from the server to the client?

The client would get the RSS XML via JavaScript, and
then it would pass it to your server as a file
upload, cookie, or form variable.

[Christoph Burschka]

Paul wrote:

I need to get, parse and display RSS feeds while having the ini setting,
allow_url_fopen = Off.

I used to use (in version 4.1) domxml_open_mem() but it's not longer
available in this verison for some reason - and cannot install pecl
extensions.

Any ideas? Any example scripts?

Thanks!!

There are at least two ways to make an http connection in PHP without allow_url_fopen being enabled
(I've tried both of these; the second one seems to be slightly faster).
1. The cURL library: http://www.php.net/cURL
If your host has it installed. For example, Dreamhost has allow_url_fopen disabled and offers cURL
as a replacement.

2. The open-source Drupal CMS contains a very powerful HTTP function that has no other dependencies
within the Drupal code - meaning you can easily copy and re-use it elsewhere. You can see the
function here: http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/funct...l_http_request . This function uses
fsockopen().

--
Christoph Burschka

[Paul]

"Christoph Burschka" <ch****************@rwth-aachen.dewrote in message
news:4s************@mid.dfncis.de...

Paul wrote:

>I need to get, parse and display RSS feeds while having the ini setting,
allow_url_fopen = Off.

I used to use (in version 4.1) domxml_open_mem() but it's not longer
available in this verison for some reason - and cannot install pecl
extensions.

Any ideas? Any example scripts?

Thanks!!

There are at least two ways to make an http connection in PHP without
allow_url_fopen being enabled
(I've tried both of these; the second one seems to be slightly faster).
1. The cURL library: http://www.php.net/cURL
If your host has it installed. For example, Dreamhost has allow_url_fopen
disabled and offers cURL
as a replacement.

2. The open-source Drupal CMS contains a very powerful HTTP function that
has no other dependencies
within the Drupal code - meaning you can easily copy and re-use it
elsewhere. You can see the
function here: http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/funct...l_http_request
. This function uses
fsockopen().

--
Christoph Burschka

OK _ I got a handle to the file using cURL. However, for some reason,
domxml_open_file() is not working. I have verified the curl gets and and
display the xml file properly. I just need to rpocess it and format it the
way I want without the domxml_open_file().

Any ideas?

[Christoph Burschka]

Paul schrieb:

"Christoph Burschka" <ch****************@rwth-aachen.dewrote in message
news:4s************@mid.dfncis.de...

>>Paul wrote:

>>>I need to get, parse and display RSS feeds while having the ini setting,
allow_url_fopen = Off.

I used to use (in version 4.1) domxml_open_mem() but it's not longer
available in this verison for some reason - and cannot install pecl
extensions.

Any ideas? Any example scripts?

Thanks!!

There are at least two ways to make an http connection in PHP without
allow_url_fopen being enabled
(I've tried both of these; the second one seems to be slightly faster).
1. The cURL library: http://www.php.net/cURL
If your host has it installed. For example, Dreamhost has allow_url_fopen
disabled and offers cURL
as a replacement.

2. The open-source Drupal CMS contains a very powerful HTTP function that
has no other dependencies
within the Drupal code - meaning you can easily copy and re-use it
elsewhere. You can see the
function here: http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/funct...l_http_request
. This function uses
fsockopen().

--
Christoph Burschka

OK _ I got a handle to the file using cURL. However, for some reason,
domxml_open_file() is not working. I have verified the curl gets and and
display the xml file properly. I just need to rpocess it and format it the
way I want without the domxml_open_file().

Any ideas?

Instead of domxml_open_file(), use domxml_open_mem().

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/functio...l-open-mem.php

That function will parse the XML it receives directly, instead of
loading it from a file. Since you have the file's contents from cURL,
just pass them to domxml_open_mem.

---
CB

[Paul]

"Christoph Burschka" <ch****************@rwth-aachen.dewrote in message
news:4s************@mid.dfncis.de...

Paul schrieb:

>"Christoph Burschka" <ch****************@rwth-aachen.dewrote in message
news:4s************@mid.dfncis.de...

>>>Paul wrote:

I need to get, parse and display RSS feeds while having the ini setting,
allow_url_fopen = Off.

I used to use (in version 4.1) domxml_open_mem() but it's not longer
available in this verison for some reason - and cannot install pecl
extensions.

Any ideas? Any example scripts?

Thanks!!

There are at least two ways to make an http connection in PHP without
allow_url_fopen being enabled
(I've tried both of these; the second one seems to be slightly faster).
1. The cURL library: http://www.php.net/cURL
If your host has it installed. For example, Dreamhost has allow_url_fopen
disabled and offers cURL
as a replacement.

2. The open-source Drupal CMS contains a very powerful HTTP function that
has no other dependencies
within the Drupal code - meaning you can easily copy and re-use it
elsewhere. You can see the
function here:
http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/funct...l_http_request . This
function uses
fsockopen().

--
Christoph Burschka

OK _ I got a handle to the file using cURL. However, for some reason,
domxml_open_file() is not working. I have verified the curl gets and and
display the xml file properly. I just need to rpocess it and format it
the way I want without the domxml_open_file().

Any ideas?

Instead of domxml_open_file(), use domxml_open_mem().

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/functio...l-open-mem.php

That function will parse the XML it receives directly, instead of loading
it from a file. Since you have the file's contents from cURL, just pass
them to domxml_open_mem.

---
CB

thanks - I'll give it a try.