PHP - Fetching The File Content, Via File_get_contents

Hi ,

i am working on a PHP code that would fetch me the" title and the description" from another web page something similar to www.Digg.com .After searching a couple of Open source codes developed by some generous coder I found this piece of code:

I have tested this code and it works fine, but the confusion here is it only works from external internet and Iam not able to extract the contents when i use the same piece of code from my office intranet(Our intranet has full access to the internet ) and the best part is when i use the same url for fetching content from Digg.com from my office intranet it works fine.

The error I get is file_get_contents time out after 60 seconds
OR
I get a blank page result without any content

But the same piece of code when used outside of my intranet works perfectly fine.

Please let me know if you find anything incorrect!

Thanks

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<?php

if(isset($_POST['submitlink'])) 
{
function getMetaTitle($content){
  $pattern = "|<[\s]*title[\s]*>([^<]+)<[\s]*/[\s]*title[\s]*>|Ui";
  if(preg_match($pattern, $content, $match))
return $match[1];
  else
return false;
}

$url = $_POST['submitlink'];

$data = array();

// get url title
$content = @file_get_contents($url);
$data['title'] = getMetaTitle($content);

// get url description from meta tag
$tags = @get_meta_tags($url);
$data['description'] = $tags['description'];

$dom = new domDocument;

@$dom->loadHTML($content);

$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;

$images = $dom->getElementsByTagName('img');

foreach($images as $img)
{
$imgurl = $img->getAttribute('src');       
$alt = $img->getAttribute('alt');
//$size = getimagesize($imgurl);
//echo "Title: $alt<br>";
//echo $imgurl;
//echo '<img src="'.$imgurl.'"  title="'.$alt.'" width="50px"/>';


}

$formdata .= '<table><tr><td>Title:</td><td><a href=';
$formdata .= 'gethome.php?url=';
$formdata .= $url;
$formdata .= '>';
$formdata .= json_encode($data['title']);
$formdata .= '</a></td></tr>';
$formdata .= '<tr><td>Description:</td><td> ';
$formdata .= json_encode($data['description']);
$formdata .= '</td></tr></table>';
}

Purpose: To get time zone of a remote file in my time zone. I have to download a file daily (mp3, don't worry its legal!) from BBC. Problem is that sometimes BBC doesn't update the file and i have to download entire file to check if it has been updated or not. Hence i decided to code a page that gives me date and time of that remote file. I have successfully compiled the code (that i got from internet). But the time returns in EST. I want the time in IST (indian std time Asia/Calcutta). CURLINFO_FILETIME has bee used. Below is code.

Pls suggest me how to convert EST to IST - Warning: I am a newbie. But i can follow instructions

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<?php
$curl = curl_init('http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/hindi/tx/32mp3/din_bhar.mp3');

//don't fetch the actual page, you only want headers
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);

//stop it from outputting stuff to stdout
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// attempt to retrieve the modification date
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FILETIME, true);

$result = curl_exec($curl);

if ($result === false) {
    die (curl_error($curl)); 
}

$timestamp = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_FILETIME);
if ($timestamp != -1) { //otherwise unknown
    echo "BBC Hindi was last modified" . date("d-m-Y h:i:s A T", $timestamp); //etc
} ?>


I have used it with custom getRemoteFileSize function he -
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http://island.web44.net/bbc.php

file_get_contents() has suddenly stopped working for me. I keep getting this error:
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Warning: file_get_contents(/Users/ttocskcaj/MineCMS/public/js/jquery.js ) [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/ttocskcaj/MineCMS/controllers/m.controller.php on line 44
The file(s) definitely exist, I can use nano to open them, and permissions are 777 on all the files. The lampp error log has nothing. Not even a No such file or directory error as you'd expect.

Any ideas what's going on?

Hello,

Is it possible to read the content of an excel file with file_get_contents. I tried it a couple times. The result looked like this:

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And if it's possible can somebody tell me what i'm doing wrong.

Thanx

I am trying to retrieve an xml file from a webservice.
I cant use the original server since it gags on non latin characters, unicode?, that is what the LOC says.

The other server does work with non latin characters
BUT it is too slow with file_get_contents, takes a minute to get anything, so slow you cant even use it in the program.
YET, retrieves the xml fast in the browser window.

So, what can I do that will work fast like it should?
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//original database server, file_get_contents is faster, about 3 to 10 seconds
//$request= 'http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve'.$query.$test2.'&startRecord='.$offset.'&maximumRecords=20';

//new one that can handle non latin characters 
//file_get_contents is SLOW, so slow to be unusable, about a minute or more
$request='http://lx2.loc.gov:210/LCDB?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve'.$query.$test2.'&startRecord='.$offset.'&maximumRecords=20';


   $raw_xml = file_get_contents($request);
   $filename = dirname(__FILE__)."/loc.xml";
   $fp = fopen($filename, "w");
   fwrite($fp, $raw_xml);
   fclose ($fp);