Using fopen with a URL...

[Heinz]

Hi All

In a section of my code I open some other file via an URL to have that code
executed like in

$raw=fopen("htt p://webserver/some.php?aaa=$a &bbb=$b");
print "<td>$raw<t d>";

This works for me, but is this a recommended way to evaluate such php code
stored in an other file ?

Next question is, if I am not interested in the value of $raw,only in the
execution of the file via fopen, can I move the fopen call in the background
like I can do on Unix using the &.
I do the above with a series of different values for $a and $b in a loop, so
it would improve the speed of this code.

Thanks in advance
Heinz

[Eep²]

Re: Using fopen with a URL...

How can that work without a second statement (r, w, etc) in the fopen command? I get an error if I just have the URL--and a "Resource id #2"; it doesn't display the results of the URL for me. :(

Heinz wrote:[color=blue]
>
> In a section of my code I open some other file via an URL to have that code
> executed like in
>
> $raw=fopen("htt p://webserver/some.php?aaa=$a &bbb=$b");
> print "<td>$raw<t d>";
>
> This works for me, but is this a recommended way to evaluate such php code
> stored in an other file ?
>
> Next question is, if I am not interested in the value of $raw,only in the
> execution of the file via fopen, can I move the fopen call in the background
> like I can do on Unix using the &.
> I do the above with a series of different values for $a and $b in a loop, so
> it would improve the speed of this code.[/color]

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Using fopen with a URL...

Eep² wrote:

Don't top post
[color=blue]
> How can that work without a second statement (r, w, etc) in the fopen command? I get an error if I just have the URL--and a "Resource id #2"; it doesn't display the results of the URL for me. :([/color]

See http://www.php.net/file_get_contents

(fsockopen with fputs/fgets might be better, though, because it supports
timeouts)

JW