Question

I have a strange situation with file_get_contents.
A webservice returns me an url, so with that url I use file_get_contents() to get the content of the file from that url.

something like:

$url = $result_from_webservice->url;

if( file_get_contents( $url ) ){
    echo 'ok';
}
else{
    echo 'error';
}

the result of that pice of code whas “error“.

so I have tried to set $url var directly. I have display the url result

echo $result_from_webservice->url;

from witch I have obtained the url like:
https://site.com/page.php?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2

and then I used the direct result like:

$url = 'https://site.com/page.php?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2';

and surprise.. that worked (result = “ok”).

then I tried to apply urldecode, thinking that my smart browser has tried to smooth the page content.

$url = $result_from_webservice->url;
    $url = urldecode( $url );

but no success.

I have allowed php to print all errors and no errors, no warnings, no notice.

Do someone has an idea about what happens here and how can I solve it?

Answer 1

Try to cast the URL to a string before using it:

$url = (string)$result_from_webservice->url;