Posted by Vijayaraj Nagarajan on 02/07/05 22:46

hi john
i am a php user...
one help from you..
i could download the contents of an url from http://
sites....but when i tried downloading the contents
from an ftp site...
i get this error...

Warning: file_get_contents(): php_hostconnect: connect
failed in /var/www/html/get.php on line 3

Warning:
file_get_contents(ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/gbrel.txt):
failed to open stream: FTP server reports 229 Entering
Extended Passive Mode (|||50334|) in
/var/www/html/get.php on line 3
This is the content of the retreived file...

could you suggest me how to go about this...
thanks for spending your valuable time...

--- John Holmes <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote:

> From: "vijayaraj nagarajan"
> <bioinfovijayaraj@yahoo.com>
>
> > i would like to fetch the content of a url.
> > and then would like to put in my page...
> dynamically
> > refreshing it once in a day...
> >
> > is it possible to do this in php.
> > i have used perl get url option and then parse the
> > file, with the date and time function...to do
> this.
>
> $file =
> file_get_contents('http://www.domain.com/page.php');
>
> Save $file locally and you have your copy. use cron
> to run the command once
> per day.
>



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