Posted by NC on 08/28/07 18:01

On Aug 27, 3:13 am, Pugi! <pugin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For obtaining the contents of a file one can use the
> file_get_contents function.

Yes, but one must also remember that in programming, one gets exactly
what one asks for. :)

> But when I try to use this function to get the contents of file
> including a querystring I always get a failed to open stream, no such
> file or directory.
> $str = file_get_contents('/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.php?
> param1=12&param2=log&param3=5');

But of course. You are asking for a local file, but append a query
string to the name. If you want to get the output of a local script,
you should ask properly:

$str = file_get_contents('http://localhost/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.php?' .
. 'param1=12&param2=log&param3=5');

> The contents of the file can either be text or json encoded.
> For an xml response it works $xml->load('/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.php?
> param1=12&param2=log&param3=5').

Well, which XML parser class are you using? It's possible that the
parser class you are using treats the argument to the load() method as
a URL...

Cheers,
NC

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