Question

My local server reads the RSS fine, but when I upload it I’m getting this error:

Warning: fopen(http://webservice.weatherzone.com.au/rss/wx.php?u=13145&lt=aploc&lc=6439&fc=1) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /var/www/vhosts/---------------------- on line 105
Error reading RSS data.

I cannot post the URL to the site because I’m still working on it and its a security issue. And I’m not able to modify the php.ini file…

This is the code where it is called:

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();    
$rss_parser = new RSSParser();    
xml_set_object($xml_parser,&$rss_parser);    
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");    
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");    
**$fp = fopen("http://webservice.weatherzone.com.au/rss/wx.php?u=13145&lt=aploc&lc=6439&fc=1","r")    
   or die("Error reading RSS data.");**    
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))    
   xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))    
       or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",    
           xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),    
           xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));    
fclose($fp);    
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

Answer 1

Do not use fopen() to read files from Web.

Try cURL instead, if installed:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$content = curl_exec($ch); // xml-code in $content
curl_close($ch);

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php