note 108431 added to function.file-get-contents

For those who use file_get_contents for JSON or other RESTful services - like my architecture did for a big site - this will probably help a lot. We struggled with having the site using get urls that would go through our load balancer instead of hitting the local server. What we did was load this function through a local url and set the Host: header for our virtualhost entries on the site we wanted to laod. This code solved our issue: <?php //set the header context stream for virtualhost lookup $context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array('header' => 'Host: www.VIRTUALHOSTDOMAIN.com'))); //use a localhost url or alternatively 127.0.0.1 ip $url = 'http://localhost/rest-service/?get-user&id=######'; //fetch the data through webserver using the Host http header we set $data = json_decode(file_get_contents($url, 0, $context)); //verify you have your data var_dump($data); ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 205.147.11.148 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/108431 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108431/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108431/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108431/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108431/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108431/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108431/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108431 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/108431 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php