Posted by Paul on 11/21/06 23:50

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