Re: file() problems [newbie]

I got an idea from another post here, and changed changed "http://weather.noaa.gov/blah/blah.txt" to http://205.156.51.200/blah/blah.txt" in my file() function, and now its working again... which doesn't necessarily mean anything, since it's tricked me into thinking something i'd done had an effect a few times now, only to start hanging again later. being a newbie, i guess i should ask, is there anything inherently _wrong_ with this simple bit of code: <?php $weather = file ('http://weather.noaa.gov/blah/blah.txt'); echo $weather[0]; echo $weather[1]; echo $weather[2]; echo $weather[3]; ?> i like the file() as opposed to fopen or fgets or fread whatever, because right off the bat i can have my array... as always, posts/help/ideas are greatly appreciated. thanks. "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> wrote in message news:BADFF241.2654B%justin@indent.com.au... > Seems to me it'd be a networking problem, but it seems odd that the server > hangs. > > Perhaps next time you get a hang, you could telnet into the BSD box, and > attempt to ping the domain? > > <guess>It might also be something to do with file locking or restricting > access on the file's server???</quote> > > > Justin > > > > on 08/05/03 4:19 AM, MVCS (info@mesilla.com) wrote: > > > Trying some simple fopen() and file() on our FreeBSD machine > > (php v4.0.6), and am running into the most irritating problem. > > > > When using file() to get a tiny remote text file (via HTTP), sometimes the > > damn thing works, and later on that day, it doesn't... no error though, just > > a never-ending hang. Sometimes it actually succeeds, after hanging for 2+ > > minutes... > > > > I know I should probably just set up a cron job to wget this text file, but > > this way really should work too: > > > > <?php > > > > $weather = file > > ('http://a.small.four/line/textfile.txt'); > > > > echo $weather[0]; > > echo $weather[1]; > > echo $weather[2]; > > echo $weather[3]; > > > > ?> > > > > etc... > > > > I know it's an oversimplified example, but it _should_ work, and it _does_ > > work, but then it wont work for a few hours, then it will... > > > > (the small text file is always present on the remote server, so that's not > > the issue) > > > > Comments? Help? Please? :) > > > > >