Posted by Paul on 11/19/06 11:02

"Christoph Burschka" <christoph.burschka@rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message
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> 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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