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 Posted by Paul on 11/21/06 23:50 
"Christoph Burschka" <christoph.burschka@rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message  
news:4sgfkjFveocaU1@mid.dfncis.de... 
> Paul schrieb: 
>> "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? 
> Instead of domxml_open_file(), use domxml_open_mem(). 
> 
> http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.domxml-open-mem.php 
> 
> That function will parse the XML it receives directly, instead of loading  
> it from a file. Since you have the file's contents from cURL, just pass  
> them to domxml_open_mem. 
> 
> --- 
> CB 
 
thanks - I'll give it a try.
 
  
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