|  | Posted by Paul on 11/19/06 11:02 
"Christoph Burschka" <christoph.burschka@rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message news:4s8vc7Fum6b8U1@mid.dfncis.de...
 > Paul wrote:
 >> I need to get, parse and display RSS feeds while having the ini setting,
 >> allow_url_fopen = Off.
 >>
 >> I used to use (in version 4.1) domxml_open_mem() but it's not longer
 >> available in this verison for some reason - and cannot install pecl
 >> extensions.
 >>
 >> Any ideas? Any example scripts?
 >>
 >> Thanks!!
 >>
 >>
 >
 > There are at least two ways to make an http connection in PHP without
 > allow_url_fopen being enabled
 > (I've tried both of these; the second one seems to be slightly faster).
 >
 >
 > 1. The cURL library: http://www.php.net/cURL
 > If your host has it installed. For example, Dreamhost has allow_url_fopen
 > disabled and offers cURL
 > as a replacement.
 >
 > 2. The open-source Drupal CMS contains a very powerful HTTP function that
 > has no other dependencies
 > within the Drupal code - meaning you can easily copy and re-use it
 > elsewhere. You can see the
 > function here: http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/drupal_http_request
 > . This function uses
 > fsockopen().
 >
 > --
 > Christoph Burschka
 
 OK _ I got a handle to the file using cURL.  However, for some reason,
 domxml_open_file() is not working.  I have verified the curl gets and and
 display the xml file properly.  I just need to rpocess it and format it the
 way I want without the domxml_open_file().
 
 Any ideas?
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