Re: Re: fopen, fread

Yeah, filesize() does not work with urls. Suggested file() and implode() earlier for this task and didn't mention fgets() as it may be appropriate here as well. http://www.php.net/fgets http://www.php.net/file Both manual entries have examples that do exactly what you want, "Put a url contents into a string." fgets() is nice because you don't have to gets the entire file, sticking a break; in there during a "match" can be uber cool :-) If this is being done locally then of course don't go through http:// ... Regards, Philip Olson On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Simon Roberts wrote: > Check the value of filesize($fileName). It's probably not working - either > because PHP doesn't support it with URLs (likely) or that it's can't get the > length from the webserver (less likely). > > PS: don't cross-post this sort of message to php-dev. That's for people > developing PHP, not developing *in* PHP. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "CC Zona" <cczona@nospam.invalid> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 4:32 PM > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: fopen, fread > > > > In article <20010921174303.5627.qmail@pb1.pair.com>, > > dries@plessers.com (Dries Plessers) wrote: > > > > > Can anybody tell me what is wrong. $file contains nothing ????? > > > > > $fileName="http://www.proxis.com"; > > > $fp=fopen($fileName, "r"); > > > $file=fread($fp, filesize($fileName)); > > > fclose($fp); > > > print("$file"); > > > > Not a good idea to just assume that every fopen will be successful (and > > therefore go ahead with the read) or that every fread will be successful > > (and therefore go ahead with the print). Throw some error checking in > > there, and PHP will likely tell you where the code is failing and why. > > > > -- > > CC > > > > -- > > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >