Question

I’m trying very simple in PHP and not very sure what to search here or on google.

Problem is –

In PHP function I want to call/get a URL

http://www.example.com/message?Name=MyNameIsX

and like to read the return value (body) at this URL (which may contain “Your Name is MyNameIsX”)

I tried

$data = file_get_contents($url)

This is timing out; although I’m able to open the $url in the browser.

Answer 1

Yes, file_get_contents normal use for files on this server and base on support and setting this perhaps is not allow.

See PHP CUrl http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples.php or example
http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples.php, http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php