simplexml on fivedev

[Tom]

Hello,

After moving to fivedev hosting I'm seeing the following error on my site:

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0

I'm reading an XML file on another domain. Does anyone know how I can work around this?

Thanks

[Kyle]

IT looks like Nabeel's config needs to enable one of allow url fopen.

[simpilot]

You are going to have to use curl to get the file,

inside of phpVMS you could use something like;

$url = 'http://www.site.com/file'
$file = new CodonWebService();
$contents = @$file->get($url);

[mark1million]

Hello,

After moving to fivedev hosting I'm seeing the following error on my site:

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0

I'm reading an XML file on another domain. Does anyone know how I can work around this?

Thanks

Are you getting xml route info from vroute?

[Nabeel]

Yes, you have to use cURL to retrieve the document.

I have to look into enabling stream wrappers in fopen and the like, but it's generally recommended to have it disabled for security

[Tom]

Okay thanks, I'll give it a go

[Tom]

Ok so, following this I've got this far:

// Check email for known spammer
	$url = 'http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?email='.$email.'&f=xmlcdata';
	$file = new CodonWebService();
	$contents = @$file->get($url);
	echo $contents;

With that last echo being there to see what I'm getting back. Currently I'm getting nothing at all. Yes, $email has a value... Where am I going wrong?

In addition, once I've loaded the xml, how am I supposed to do anything with it?

[Nabeel]

Take out that @, that's supressing errors

[Tom]

$url = 'http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?email='.$data['email'].'&f=xmlcdata';
		//$params = array('email' => $data['email'], 'f' => 'xmlcdata');
		$file = new CodonWebService();
		$contents = $file->get($url);
		$response = simplexml_load_string($contents);
		echo $contents;

Moved where it is so I'm now using $data['email'], but echoing contents still just returns nothing :?

[Nabeel]

Are you using that URL properly?

With this code:

<?php

include 'phpvms/core/classes/CodonWebService.class.php';
echo '<pre>';

$url = 'http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?email=nabeel@&f=xmlcdata';
$file = new CodonWebService();
$contents = $file->get($url);

var_dump($contents);


$response = simplexml_load_string($contents);
echo $contents;

On this page:

http://fivedev.net/test.php

Something is being returned - $contents is a 190 character string(of spaces apparently?)

[Tom]

Ah, they appeared to be having problems with their strict xml output, without that last variable it seems to be working fine. Got it working as expected now.

Thanks a lot

I'm going to post my code in the snippets forum just in case anyone else is having a spam problem

[Nabeel]

Ah, they appeared to be having problems with their strict xml output, without that last variable it seems to be working fine. Got it working as expected now.

Thanks a lot

I'm going to post my code in the snippets forum just in case anyone else is having a spam problem

Do they have json output?

I'd use that, easier than parsing XML, though in the end it would be the same. JSON would use less bandwidth:

$contents =- ...

$contents = json_decode($contents);
echo $contents->variable