Does PHPs fopen function implement some kind of cache?

Question

I\'m struggling with the automated data collection of a PHP script from a webserver. The files in question contain meteo data and are updated every 10 minutes. Weirdly enoug

Answer 1

maybe this can resolve your problem (POST request can't be cached as far i know)

$opts = array('http' =>
  array(
    'method'  => 'POST',
    'content'=>''
  )
);
$context  = stream_context_create($opts);
$resource = fopen ('http://example.com/your-ulr', 'r', false, $context);

/* or you can use file_get_contents to retrieve all the file 
   $fileContent = file_get_contents('http://example.com/your-ulr', false, $context);
*/