Server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0 in
Solution 1:
@blytung Has a nice function to replace that function
<?php
$url = "http://www.example.org/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo curl_error($ch);
echo "\n<br />";
$contents = '';
} else {
curl_close($ch);
}
if (!is_string($contents) || !strlen($contents)) {
echo "Failed to get contents.";
$contents = '';
}
echo $contents;
?>
Solution 2:
If you do not have the ability to modify your php.ini file, use cURL: PHP Curl And Cookies
Here is an example function I created:
function get_web_page( $url, $cookiesIn = '' ){
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => true, //return headers in addition to content
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects
CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT => true,
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => true, // Validate SSL Cert
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_COOKIE => $cookiesIn
);
$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$rough_content = curl_exec( $ch );
$err = curl_errno( $ch );
$errmsg = curl_error( $ch );
$header = curl_getinfo( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );
$header_content = substr($rough_content, 0, $header['header_size']);
$body_content = trim(str_replace($header_content, '', $rough_content));
$pattern = "#Set-Cookie:\\s+(?<cookie>[^=]+=[^;]+)#m";
preg_match_all($pattern, $header_content, $matches);
$cookiesOut = implode("; ", $matches['cookie']);
$header['errno'] = $err;
$header['errmsg'] = $errmsg;
$header['headers'] = $header_content;
$header['content'] = $body_content;
$header['cookies'] = $cookiesOut;
return $header;
}
NOTE: In revisiting this function I noticed that I had disabled SSL checks in this code. That is generally a BAD thing even though in my particular case the site I was using it on was local and was safe. As a result I've modified this code to have SSL checks on by default. If for some reason you need to change that, you can simply update the value for CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, but I wanted the code to be secure by default if someone uses this.