PHP ini file_get_contents external url

Question

I use following PHP function:

file_get_contents(\'http://example.com\');

Whenever I do this on a certain server, the result is empty. When I do

Answer 1

Complementing Aillyn's answer, you could use a function like the one below to mimic the behavior of file_get_contents:

function get_content($URL){
      $ch = curl_init();
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
      $data = curl_exec($ch);
      curl_close($ch);
      return $data;
}

echo get_content('http://example.com');