Re: Quick file_get_contents() questions...your opinion needed

Hey, > On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:24:03 -0700 (PDT), Mag > <genphp@yahoo.com> wrote: > > $url=file_get_contents("http://www.yahoo.com/"); > > > > The thing is, it takes quite some time (2-5 secs) > > before the contents are in my program (I am using > my > > local webserver on my desktop for testing...not a > > webserver) > > > > My questions are for you more experienced guys... > > is there anyway to 'quicken' the process or is > this > > normal? > > do you recommend anything other than > > file_get_contents() ? > > and lastly, is this a resource intensive hog? > The 2-5 seconds is most likely a DNS lookup. You > can speed it up by > using a local caching DNS server or the IP address, > or possibly a DNS > server under less load. Thats kind of what I thought, but wanted to confirm. > file_get_contents() is fairly new and and therefore > not very backwards > compatible with older PHP installs as a result. > It's handy and all, > but I found our production servers were running a > PHP too old to use > it one day last week when I tried. Interesting, so what is more backwards compatable? or to put it in another way, what did you change on your servers so that your app worked without file_get_contents? Thanks, Mag ===== ------ - The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard. - Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster! - Smile, everyone loves a moron. :-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail