Question

file_get_contents() doesn’t read data for short urls
Example:

• http://wp.me/pbZy8-1WM,
• http://bit.ly/d00E2C

Please help me in handle this. OR Is there any CURL function to handle above links?

Answer 1

This in general works fine. If you find it doesn’t do the right thing you can explicitly use a stream context:

$url = "http://bit.ly/d00E2C";
$context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array('max_redirects' => 5)));
$val = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

should do it. No need to touch CURL for that.