Re: newbie: contents will not output

At 04:22 11.03.2003, Anthony Ritter said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >I'm trying to test the following script to display the contents of the >following URL but it will not output. > >Any advice will be greatly appreciated. >Thank you. >Tony Ritter >....................................................... > ><? $file_handler = fopen("http://www.weather.com", >"r"); $contents = >fread($file_handler, filesize($file)); fclose($file_handler); echo >$contents; ?> --------------------[snip]-------------------- You cannot stat() (i.e. use filesize()) a remote file, filesize() will return false making your script read 0 (zero) bytes. When reading remote files you may consider chunking them: $fh = fopen('http://www.weather.com', 'r'); if ($fh) { while ($chunk = fread($fh, 4096)) echo $chunk; fclose($fh); } This will work perfectly (if url-fopen-wrapper is enabled in your build anyway). -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/