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

IF youre fetching from an external URL the best handling is going to come fromt he introduction of HTTP library like Zend_Http. This isnt much different than using CURL or fopen except its going to extract the particulars of these "dirvers" into a universal API and then you can choose which you want to use. Its also going to have some built in error trapping to make it easier on you.

If you dont want the overhead of another library then you can code it yourself obviously - in which case i always prefer CURL.