file_get_contents() is a simple screwdriver. Great for simple GET requests where the header, HTTP request method, timeout, cookiejar, redirects, and other important things do not matter. fopen() with a stream context or cURL with setopt are powerdrills with every bit and option you can think of.
Try this workaround: $opts = array(‘http’=>array(‘header’ => “User-Agent:MyAgent/1.0\r\n”)); $context = stream_context_create($opts); $header = file_get_contents(‘https://www.example.com’,false,$context); If this doesn’t work, maybe you cant read from https?
You can use readfile and output the image headers which you can get from getimagesize like this: $remoteImage = “http://www.example.com/gifs/logo.gif”; $imginfo = getimagesize($remoteImage); header(“Content-type: {$imginfo[‘mime’]}”); readfile($remoteImage); The reason you should use readfile here is that it outputs the file directly to the output buffer where as file_get_contents will read the file into memory which is … Read more
If you mean multi-curl then, something like this might help: $nodes = array($url1, $url2, $url3); $node_count = count($nodes); $curl_arr = array(); $master = curl_multi_init(); for($i = 0; $i < $node_count; $i++) { $url =$nodes[$i]; $curl_arr[$i] = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($curl_arr[$i], CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_multi_add_handle($master, $curl_arr[$i]); } do { curl_multi_exec($master,$running); } while($running > 0); for($i = 0; $i < … Read more
I am using this function, which includes several fallbacks to compensate for older versions of PHP or simply bad results: function getFileMimeType($file) { if (function_exists(‘finfo_file’)) { $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE); $type = finfo_file($finfo, $file); finfo_close($finfo); } else { require_once ‘upgradephp/ext/mime.php’; $type = mime_content_type($file); } if (!$type || in_array($type, array(‘application/octet-stream’, ‘text/plain’))) { $secondOpinion = exec(‘file -b –mime-type … Read more
The default timeout is defined by default_socket_timeout ini-setting, which is 60 seconds. You can also change it on the fly: ini_set(‘default_socket_timeout’, 900); // 900 Seconds = 15 Minutes Another way to set a timeout, would be to use stream_context_create to set the timeout as HTTP context options of the HTTP stream wrapper in use: $ctx … Read more
You may as well use substr and strpos for this. $startsAt = strpos($out, “{FINDME}”) + strlen(“{FINDME}”); $endsAt = strpos($out, “{/FINDME}”, $startsAt); $result = substr($out, $startsAt, $endsAt – $startsAt); You’ll need to add error checking to handle the case where it doesn’t FINDME.
I had similar problem with polish language I tried: $fileEndEnd = mb_convert_encoding($fileEndEnd, ‘UTF-8’, mb_detect_encoding($fileEndEnd, ‘UTF-8’, true)); I tried: $fileEndEnd = utf8_encode ( $fileEndEnd ); I tried: $fileEndEnd = iconv( “UTF-8”, “UTF-8”, $fileEndEnd ); And then – $fileEndEnd = mb_convert_encoding($fileEndEnd, ‘HTML-ENTITIES’, “UTF-8”); This last worked perfectly !!!!!!
Step 1: check the return code: if($content === FALSE) { // handle error here… } Step 2: suppress the warning by putting an error control operator (i.e. @) in front of the call to file_get_contents(): $content = @file_get_contents($site);
The setting you are looking for is allow_url_fopen. You have two ways of getting around it without changing php.ini, one of them is to use fsockopen(), and the other is to use cURL. I recommend using cURL over file_get_contents() anyways, since it was built for this.