file_get_contents not retrieving page contents - php

Question

OK, before saying this is a duplicate just read a bit....
I have been trying to echo contents of URL that has allow_url_fopen disabled for HOURS now, I have tried every solution posted on stack overflow. EXAMPLE:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Doesn't WORK
function curl_get_contents($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
Doesn't WORK
$url = "http://www.google.com";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $data;
Doesn't WORK
fopen("cookies.txt", "w");
$url="http://adfoc.us/1575051";
$ch = curl_init();
$header=array('GET /1575051 HTTP/1.1',
'Host: adfoc.us',
'Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
'Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8',
'Cache-Control:max-age=0',
'Connection:keep-alive',
'Host:adfoc.us',
'User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36',
);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,0);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, true );
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE,'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,'cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$header);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
Doesn't WORK
// create the Gateway object
$gateway = new Gateway();
// set our url
$gateway->init($url);
// get the raw response, ignore errors
$response = $gateway->exec();
Doesn't WORK
$file = "http://www.example.com/my_page.php";
if (function_exists('curl_version'))
{
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $file);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$content = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
}
else if (file_get_contents(__FILE__) && ini_get('allow_url_fopen'))
{
$content = file_get_contents($file);
}
else
{
echo 'You have neither cUrl installed nor allow_url_fopen activated. Please setup one of those!';
}
This doesn't work.
The page I am trying to use file_get_contents on is not on my website. I am trying to use file_get_contents so i can make a simple API for the site owner by reading a page and checking if a certain word is present on the page.
But yeah if anyone has any suggestions PLEASE post below :)

Answer 1

You can check first weather the site is available or not for example a sample code
Code taken from here:
<?php
$cURL = curl_init('http://www.technofusions.com/');
curl_setopt ( $cURL , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , true );
// Follow any kind of redirection that are in the URL
curl_setopt ( $cURL , CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION , true );
$result = curl_exec ( $cURL );
// Getting HTTP response code
$answer = curl_getinfo ( $cURL , CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE );
curl_close ( $cURL );
if ( $answer == ' 404 ' ) {
echo ' The site not found (ERROR 404)! ' ;
} else {
echo ' It looks like everything is working fine ... ' ;
}
?>
For a full answer you can got to this tutorial Curl IN PHP