Question

I need to retrieve a web content. I usually use wget but it’s giving me an “Internal Server Error” this time. I also tried using file_get_contents(), it works when I’m using MAMP installed in my Mac, but when I run it in our server, it’s not doing anything and prints no error message. Is there any other way to do this? Below are the code that I used.

<?php
echo "Retrieving Traffic Updates";
$source = file_get_contents('http://www4.honolulu.gov/hpdtraffic/MainPrograms/frmMain.asp?sSearch=All+Incidents&sSort=I_tTimeCreate');
echo $source;
?>

Thanks in advance!!

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I don’t know how to reply to all of you so I just added it here. CURL WORKED PERFECTLY. Thanks a lot guys.
I just have to ask though why file_get_contents() won’t work even if it’s enabled in the php.ini?

Answer 1

You can use cURL:

<?php 
echo "Retrieving Traffic Updates";
$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www4.honolulu.gov/hpdtraffic/MainPrograms/frmMain.asp?sSearch=All+Incidents&sSort=I_tTimeCreate"); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
$source = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch);      
echo $source
?>