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In PHP, file_get_contents is the preferred way to read the contents of a file into a string. It will use memory mapping techniques (if supported by your OS) to enhance performance.

In PHP, file_get_contents is used to read an entire file into a single string. Depending on the server configuration, it can also be used to read URLs as well. It differs from file(), in that file is designed to return a resource pointer and then used read the file in chunks (i.e. CSV files). Use file for large files that should not be read all at once. Use file_get_contents to read smaller files and files that cannot be read as easily read in chunks (i.e. JSON)

For more details see the PHP manual entry.

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How can I handle the warning of file_get_contents() function in PHP?

I wrote a PHP code like this $site="http://www.google.com"; $content = file_get_content($site); echo $content; But when I remove "http://" from $site I get the following warning: Warning: file_get_contents(www.google.com) …
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How to post data in PHP using file_get_contents?

I'm using PHP's function file_get_contents() to fetch contents of a URL and then I process headers through the variable $http_response_header. Now the problem is that some of the URLs need some data to be posted to the URL (for example, login…
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file_get_contents(): SSL operation failed with code 1, Failed to enable crypto

I’ve been trying to access this particular REST service from a PHP page I’ve created on our server. I narrowed the problem down to these two lines. So my PHP page looks like this:
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Does file_get_contents() have a timeout setting?

I am calling a series of links using the file_get_contents() method in a loop. Each link may take more than 15 minutes to process. Now, I worry about whether PHP's file_get_contents() has a timeout period? If yes, it will time out with a call and…
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PHP cURL vs file_get_contents

How do these two pieces of code differ when accessing a REST API? $result = file_get_contents('http://api.bitly.com/v3/shorten?login=user&apiKey=key&longUrl=url'); and $ch =…
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How to get file_get_contents() to work with HTTPS?

I'm working on setting up credit card processing and needed to use a workaround for CURL. The following code worked fine when I was using the test server (which wasn't calling an SSL URL), but now when I am testing it on the working server with…
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PHP file_get_contents() returns "failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!"

I am having problems calling a url from PHP code. I need to call a service using a query string from my PHP code. If I type the url into a browser, it works ok, but if I use file-get-contents() to make the call, I get: Warning:…
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file_get_contents when url doesn't exist

I'm using file_get_contents() to access a URL. file_get_contents('http://somenotrealurl.com/notrealpage'); If the URL is not real, it return this error message. How can I get it to error gracefully so that I know that the page doesn't exist and…
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file_get_contents() Breaks Up UTF-8 Characters

I am loading a HTML from an external server. The HTML markup has UTF-8 encoding and contains characters such as ľ,š,č,ť,ž etc. When I load the HTML with file_get_contents() like this: $html = file_get_contents('http://example.com/foreign.html'); It…
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Show image using file_get_contents

how can I display an image retrieved using file_get_contents in php? Do i need to modify the headers and just echo it or something? Thanks!
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Replace a whole line where a particular word is found in a text file

How can I replace a particular line of text in file using php? I don't know the line number. I want to replace a line containing a particular word.
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Upload a file using file_get_contents

I realise I can do this with CURL very easily, but I was wondering if it was possible to use file_get_contents() with the http stream context to upload a file to a remote web server, and if so, how?
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Alternative to file_get_contents?

$xml_file = file_get_contents(SITE_PATH . 'cms/data.php'); The problem is that a server has URL file-access disabled. I cannot enable it, its a hosting thing. So the question is this. The data.php file generates xml code. How can I execute this…
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Get file content from URL?

When I use following URL in browser then it prompt me to download a text file with JSOn content. https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=p3&chs=250x100&chd=t:60,40&chl=Hello|World&chof=json (Click above URL see downloaded file content) Now I want to…
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PHP ini file_get_contents external url

I use following PHP function: file_get_contents('http://example.com'); Whenever I do this on a certain server, the result is empty. When I do it anywhere else, the result is whatever the page's content may be. When I however, on the server where the…
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