Why get_file_contents not working?

[1965]

Hi, All. I am new to PHP. Though I dug through this forum to try to find an answer to get_file_contents function, I failed. Please help with the below problem.

I am testing building a page by using google maps api to retrieve data from a news site and plotting markers on google map. Because the news is constantly updated, i used script proxy on server side to get remote file, the user's brower will dynamically parse the data and load the result. The link is at:
<Link removed>
The problem is that when I use get_file_contents(remote target file), there is warning "Failed to open stream..." I want a reliable way to get the file, some identified it as OFF in PHP ini fopen, it seems not that simple. And I need a method to detect if ISP has disabled fopen function.

Or you may suggest other ways to workaround this and get the file each time the browser loads the map.

Thank you very much in advance.
Your any help will be appreciated.

[Atli]

Hi. Welcome to The Scripts!

I removed the link from your post. All links to commercial webs are strictly forbidden on the technical forums. Please read the Posting Guidelines for more info on our posting policies.

Ok, getting to the problem.
Could you post the error messages you are getting?
And maybe the code that is generating them?

Also, keep in mind that most of the file system functions require the 'allow_url_fopen' directive in your php.ini to be enabled in order to open URLs.

To test this, simply execute this code. If it prints 0 it is disabled. 1 means it is enabled.

<?php
echo ini_get("allow_url_fopen");
?>
 

[1965]

Thank you very much.Ati.

error warning is
Warning: file_get_contents(remote url): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in D:\wwwroot\guoshesen\wwwroot\map\rssxml.php on line 3

As that remote url is an xml file, I can smoothly open it in my IE but not through php proxy script..

[pbmods]

Heya, 1965.

You're getting a 404, which means that the URL that you're requesting doesn't exist.

Try echoing your URL to make sure you're passing to file_get_contents() what you think you're passing to file_get_contents().

[1965]

Thank you Pbmods and Atli, but the url does really exist. Because every day I am using the url to download the xml, though manually. that url is used to retrieve data

http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=http://hosted.ap.org/lineups/WORLDHEADS-rss_2.0.xml?SITE=RANDOM&SECTION=HOME

. So please let know any clues to solutions.

[pbmods]

Heya, 1965.

What does your file_get_contents() call look like?

[1965]

one line

<?php 
$file = file_get_contents ('http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=http://hosted.ap.org/lineups/WORLDHEADS-rss_2.0.xml?SITE=RANDOM&SECTION=HOME'); 
Echo $file;
?>

[pbmods]

Heya, 1965.

Please use CODE tags when posting source code:

[CODE=php]
PHP code goes here.
[/CODE]

[pbmods]

Try this:

$file = file_get_contents( 'http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=' . urlencode('http://hosted.ap.org/lineups/WORLDHEADS-rss_2.0.xml?SITE=RANDOM&SECTION=HOME') );
 

Or for maximum efficiency:

$file = file_get_contents( 'http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fhosted.ap.org%2Flineups%2FWORLDHEADS-rss_2.0.xml%3FSITE%3DRANDOM%26SECTION%3DHOME');
 

[1965]

Thank you very much. Pbmods. I have read your code, I am away from my desk for a while, I will let you know my test result after a while. Thank you again.

[1965]

Dear Pbmods:

I just tried twice your two codes. It still does not work. Below are errors. Why?

In IE
Warning: file_get_contents(http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fhosted.ap.org%2Fl ineups%2FWORLDHEADS-rss_2.0.xml%3FSITE%3DRANDOM%26SECTION%3DHOME): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in D:\wwwroot\guoshesen\wwwroot\map\rssxml.php on line 3

In IE
Warning: file_get_contents(http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fhosted.ap.org%2Fl ineups%2FWORLDHEADS-rss_2.0.xml%3FSITE%3DRANDOM%26SECTION%3DHOME): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in D:\wwwroot\guoshesen\wwwroot\map\rssxml.php on line 3

In Opera:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\wwwroot\guoshesen\wwwroot\map\rssxml.php on line 3

[mwasif]

one line

<?php 
$file = file_get_contents ('http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=http://hosted.ap.org/lineups/WORLDHEADS-rss_2.0.xml?SITE=RANDOM&SECTION=HOME'); 
Echo $file;
?>

You code is working perfectly on my side.

Did you check the setting for allow_url_fopen in php.ini as Atli suggested? What do you get from the following code?
[PHP]echo ini_get("allow_url_fopen");[/PHP]