[erik.silkensen]

Hello,

I am starting to play around with PHP a little bit, but I'm having trouble with something:

I would like to read a site's source line by line. I can do this fine - but apparently only when the page I'm reading lives on the same server...

trying to load anything else raises a Connection refused error.

Here's the code I'm using:

$page = file_get_contents("url_here");
$lines = explode("\n", $page);
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($lines); $i++) {
  $line = $lines[$i];
  // do some stuff. . .
}

Can anyone help me out!?

Thanks!

[gk]

"allow_url_fopen" in your ini file might have something to do with it.

PHP: Filesystem Functions - Manual

[erik.silkensen]

I looked into it a little more and it looks like what you said would work -- but my host is sourceforge so I'm pretty sure it's not possible for me.

[pgo]

Yeah, they'd probably have allow_url_fopen off. It just makes sense.

[gk]

Why do you want to do that anyway?

[erik.silkensen]

Well this probably isn't the best approach but...

my goal was to post a counter on my project's web page showing how many downloads its had. For the files hosted at sourceforge I just grabbed the numbers from the source of the download pages and echoed them into my site. Someone packaged the program for a linux distribution though so I wanted to add another counter for how many downloads the other version had at the other site.

I'm open to suggestions for how to do this though... I just kind of went at it and this was the first thing that came to mind.

[gk]

do a redirect. so all the php file would do is log the download to your database/file then redirect the user to the real url.