Retrieve data from url and save in php - php

Question

I am trying to retrieve the html from file get contents in php then save it to a php file so I can include it into my homepage.
Unfortunately my script isn't saving the data into the file. I also need to verwrite this data on a daily basis as it will be setup with a cron job.
Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong please? I am just learning php :-)
<?php
$richSnippets = file_get_contents('http://website.com/data');
$filename = 'reviews.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename,"x+");
$somecontent = echo $richSnippets;
fwrite($handle,$somecontent);
echo "Success";
fclose($handle);
?>

Answer 1

A couple of things,
http://website.com/data gets a 404 error, it doesn't exist.
Change your code to
$site = 'http://www.google.com';
$homepage = file_get_contents($site);
$filename = 'reviews.txt';
$handle = fopen($filename,"w");
fwrite($handle,$homepage);
echo "Success";
fclose($handle);
Remove $somecontent = echo $richSnippets; it doesn't do anything.
if you have the proper permissions it should work.
Be sure that your pointing to an existing webpage.
Edit
When cURL is enabled you can use the following function
function get_web_page( $url ){
$options = array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // return web page
CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // don't return headers
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, // follow redirects
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "", // handle all encodings
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => "spider", // who am i
CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER => true, // set referer on redirect
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on connect
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 120, // timeout on response
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, // stop after 10 redirects
);
$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
$content = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );
return $content;
}
Now change
$homepage = file_get_contents($site);
in to
$homepage = get_web_page($site);

Answer 2

You should use / instead of ****
$homepage = file_get_contents('http://website.com/data');
Also this part
$somecontent = echo $richSnippets;
I don't see $richSnippets above... it's probably not declared?
You probably want to do this:
fwrite($handle,$homepage);