Question

I have this code :

$feed = 'urltorss';
$feeds =  new SimpleXmlElement( file_get_contents($feed) );


$feed = 'http://www.businessweek.com/feeds/homepage.rss';
$feeds =  new SimpleXmlElement( file_get_contents($feed) );

Now both urls don’t have any special characters that require url encoding them, but the 2nd url has an .rss extension if it’s related.

The first call works and i get a timeout on the 2nd when i try on my server but works perfectly on localhost.

This is the error i’m getting :

    Severity: Warning

Message: file_get_contents('http://www.businessweek.com/feeds/homepage.rss')
[function.file-get-contents]: 
failed to open stream: Connection timed out

Filename: controllers/mailsystem.php

Line Number: 36

Why is that?

Answer 1

First, check your path so
echo $feed; // just for debug
then check the content
$content = @file_get_contents($feed);
and in the end, get the XML
if( $content ) { $feeds = new SimpleXmlElement( file_get_contents($feed) ); }

Edit: file_get_contents for URLs will only work if you have allow_url_fopen = 1. To get the content of http://www.businessweek.com/feeds/homepage.rss you need a cURL function that gets the content. Something like http://davidwalsh.name/curl-download