help-regarding-file_get_contents

hi john i am a php user... one help from you.. i could download the contents of an url from http:// sites....but when i tried downloading the contents from an ftp site... i get this error... Warning: file_get_contents(): php_hostconnect: connect failed in /var/www/html/get.php on line 3 Warning: file_get_contents(ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/gbrel.txt): failed to open stream: FTP server reports 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||50334|) in /var/www/html/get.php on line 3 This is the content of the retreived file... could you suggest me how to go about this... thanks for spending your valuable time... --- John Holmes <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote: > From: "vijayaraj nagarajan" > <bioinfovijayaraj@yahoo.com> > > > i would like to fetch the content of a url. > > and then would like to put in my page... > dynamically > > refreshing it once in a day... > > > > is it possible to do this in php. > > i have used perl get url option and then parse the > > file, with the date and time function...to do > this. > > $file = > file_get_contents('http://www.domain.com/page.php'); > > Save $file locally and you have your copy. use cron > to run the command once > per day. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail