Good error handling with file_get_contents

Question

I am making use of simplehtmldom which has this funciton:

// get html dom form file
function file_get_html() {
    $dom = new simple_html_dom;
    $args = fu         


        

Answer 1

To see why a file_get_contents call might have failed, you could just use php's error_get_last function:

if ($contents = file_get_contents($url)) {
    // it worked
}
else {
   die("Failed to fetch ".$url.", error: ".error_get_last()['message']);
}