Question

I’m trying to use the PHP function file_get_contents(). But the URL I’m trying to open use a port, for example:

file_get_contents("http://212.21.323.32:8010")

I’m not able to open this URL, how can I do this?

Answer 1

Personally I’d use cURL and use CURLOPT_PORT to set the port you want to connect on.

<?php
$cURL = curl_init('http://www.google.co.uk'); //Initialise cURL with the URL to connect to
curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_PORT, 80); //Set the port to connect to
curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); //Get cURL to return the HTML from the curl_exec function

$HTML = curl_exec($cURL); //Execute the request and store the result in $HTML

echo $HTML; //Output the HTML
?>