Re: [backstage-developer] Accessing http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a-z from PHP

Try using the CURL library instead of file_get_contents for accessing external files - it's a lot more customisable, and you might be able to get some info back about why it's locking up! Cheers, Tom Brian Butterworth wrote: I wrote some code a while ago that goes though the BBC programme

Re: [backstage-developer] Accessing http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a-z from PHP

http://www.openicon.org/get_contents.php very temporary but wfm thinks it must be a local issue... ~: Jonathan Chetwynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openicon.org/ +44 (0) 20 7978 1764 ?php $cty=file_get_contents(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a-z;, 0, $ctx); echo $cty; ? On 17 May

Re: [backstage-developer] Accessing http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a-z from PHP

Interesting library.. might use it more often. Seems to work with this, but it's working with file_get_contents again! Thanks. 2008/5/17 Tom Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try using the CURL library instead of file_get_contents for accessing external files - it's a lot more customisable, and you

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

Perhaps someone should tell them about BDA and the WinTV-Nova-T500 cards? Much better to source direct from digital than encode from a STB, surely? 2008/5/17 Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Richard Compston wrote: I don't know if Zattoo are using

Re: [backstage] Stephen Fry: There is this marvellous idea the iPlayer is secure. It's anything but secure

2008/5/8 Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am still not certain about Dave Crossland's model either As kind as it is to be attributed with the http://freedomdefined.org model of culture that I advocate, may I suggest you call it the culture freedom model or similar :-) as a result it

Re: [backstage] Who spilled coffee on the server?

But that's not the point of the Birtspeak 2.0 section of the Eye as I see it, the point is that you shouldn't use technical jargon if there is no need for it, and from my limited understanding of that email, it wasn't really needed. I think in this case however, that the technical language

Re: [backstage] Who spilled coffee on the server?

2008/5/16 vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd never heard of visual language before reading that email; It was a title of a module of my graphic design degree, so it certainly commonly used outside the BBC, although within the graphic design community. -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the

Re: [backstage] Who spilled coffee on the server?

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDEdl=GUIDEid=108860 seems to date back to 1991... 2008/5/17 Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/5/16 vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd never heard of visual language before reading that email; It was a title of a module of my graphic design