Bug #7971 Updated: Unable to open web sites using fope()n command

ID: 7971 Updated by: jmoore Reported By: sksarkar@eos.ncsu.edu Old-Status: Open Status: Analyzed Bug Type: Sockets related PHP Version: 4.0.3pl1 Assigned To: Comments: the fopen wrappers do not currently handle redirects (unless this has been correct) use http://www.php.net/ and it will work. - James Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2000-11-25 15:46:41] sksarkar@eos.ncsu.edu **This is the code ** <? // Headlines Grabber by Neil Moomey, www.neilmoomey.com. // You are free to use this code as you wish. // Make sure you get permission from any web sites you grab code from. // You may want to write the headlines to a file on your server to speed things up. // Grab source code from a file or web site if(!($myFile=fopen("http://www.php.net","r"))) { echo "The news interface is down for maintenance."; exit; } while(!feof($myFile)) { // Read each line and add to $myLine $myLine.=fgets($myFile,255); } fclose($myFile); // Extract everything between start and end. You need to include these lines //in the headlines or pick some unique substring in the html to mark the start //and end of the news. $start="<!---START OF HEADLINES--->"; $end="<!---END OF HEADLINES--->"; $start_position=strpos($myLine, $start); $end_position=strpos($myLine, $end)+strlen($end); $length=$end_position-$start_position; $myLine=substr($myLine, $start_position, $length); // Display HTML echo $myLine; ?> **end of code** **error message** Warning: fopen("http://www.php.net","r") - Undefined error: 0 in /var/apache/htdocs/news/parse_site4.php on line 8 The news interface is down for maintenance. **end of error message** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION! Do NOT reply to this email! To reply, use the web interface found at http://bugs.php.net/?id=7971&edit=2