Re: pulling content from a URL

I would recommend using PEAR::HTTP_Request for this. It does exactly what you want to do, and can handle error handling very well http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request > I'm writing a script that needs to put the contents of an external URL > into a variable. I need to include some sort of error checking that > will kill this request if for some reason the URL request hangs for > more then 15 seconds. In researching this, I think the correct > function to use is fsockopen, but I can't seem to get it to work. Can > someone verify if fsockopen is the best way to grab an external URL, > but kill the request if it hangs for a certain amount of time ... and > if so, show me some sample code on how to place this URL's contents > into a variable that I can then parse. The URL will be hard coded into > the script, so I don't need a lot of error checking to insure correct > URL format, etc. -- Regards, Matthew Fonda http://mfonda.info