how do you enable php to enable to make http calls - php

Question

After trying all night without any success, this is the code that I have should work but not working:
<?php
// Get cURL resource
$curl = curl_init();
// Set some options - we are passing in a useragent too here
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_URL => 'http://api.keynote.com/keynote/',
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Codular Sample cURL Request'
));
// Send the request & save response to $resp
$resp = curl_exec($curl);
if(!curl_exec($curl)){
die('Error: "' . curl_error($curl) . '" - Code: ' . curl_errno($curl));
}
// Close request to clear up some resources
curl_close($curl);
echo $resp;
?>
The error that I am getting is this:
Error: "Failed connect to api.keynote.com:80; No error" - Code: 7
On the server, I can manually bring up this url with any browser without any problems.
How do I make php connec to internet?

Answer 1

The thing is that fsockopen is used for opening socks (i.e connect to the specified port on the specified host/IP).
When you try to open sock to the host "http://google.com" it is like running "ping http://google.com" - you will get an error - as there is no such host "http://"
What you shout do is use http_get or curl
<?php
$response = http_get("http://www.example.com/", array("timeout"=>1), $info);
print_r($info);
?>
or remove the "http://"
<?php
$fp = fsockopen("www.example.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
} else {
$out = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out .= "Host: www.example.com\r\n";
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
}
?>