note 120366 deleted from function.file-get-contents by salathe

Note Submitter: lesssugar ---- Keep in mind that if you use a URL as the filename attribute, and the external resource is not reachable, the function will not return FALSE but instead an exception will be thrown. So, in this case, instead of doing this: $content = file_get_contents('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat#/media/File:Large_Siamese_cat_tosses_a_mouse.jpg'); if ($content === false) { // Handle the error } Do this: try { $content = file_get_contents('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat#/media/File:Large_Siamese_cat_tosses_a_mouse.jpg'); if ($content === false) { // Handle the error } } catch (Exception $e) { // Handle exception }