RE: [PHP] fopen not opening url

[Lawrence . Sheed]

Are you still having problems?

Things to try:

1.  Try and open the url directly in a browser.
eg http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml

Does it return data (you may need to change the &o=xml to &o=html though).

Some countries (like the one I'm in China, have moreover access banned via
some providers)

2.  socket blocking - you may need to enable or disable this dependant on
your server settings:
set_socket_blocking ($connection,false);

function LoadFile ($filename,$block=false){
        $fd = fopen( $filename, "r" );
        if ($block) set_socket_blocking ($fd,true);
        $contents = fread( $fd, filesize( $filename ) );
        fclose( $fd );  
        return ($contents);
}

Without socket blocking
LoadFile
("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml";);


With socket blocking
LoadFile
("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml",true
);

3. I use something like this for reads on difficult servers (some china mail
servers are a p.i.a to get at sometimes).

Function GetLine() {
        $timeout=30;
        $iStartTime = time();
        set_socket_blocking($this->connection, false);
        
        $line = fread($this->connection,128);
        while(empty($line)){            
                $line = fread($this->connection,128);
                usleep(250000);         
        }
        if ($debug) {
                print ($line) ."<br>";
                System("echo ''"); 
                flush;
        }

        return ($line);
}


Let me know how you do.

Lawrence.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Paulson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: July 31, 2001 5:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] fopen not opening url


here's the code i'm using below to try and open up the url.. :)

thanks!
jay

$fp =
fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml";
, "r");
$length = filesize($fp);
$content = fread($fp,$length);
fclose($fp);
echo $content;

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Dempsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Jay Paulson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 1:52 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] fopen not opening url


> Hi jay,
>
> I've done the exact thing you're trying, and it works...paste in some
> code so we can see where its going wrong...
>
> jack
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Paulson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] fopen not opening url
>
> hello-
> I'm trying to use the fopen() command to open the url below and just
> read it
> into another $var. However, I'm having some problems.... the warning i
> get
> is below along with the url in the warning.  Anyone know what's going on
> here??
>
> Thanks,
> jay
>
> Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed
> Warning:
> fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=
> xml"
> ,"r") - Bad file descriptor




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