file-get-contents

I need to scrape a large html file (eg: http://www.indianrail.gov.in/mail_express_trn_list.html ) using simple html dom. I started with a simple script: <?php require "simple_html_dom.php"; echo file_get_html('http://www.indianrail.gov.in/mail_express_trn_list.html')->plaintext; ?> which shows nothing, just a blank page with the error message in Apache error.log file PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/index.php on line 3 PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /var/www/index.php on line 3 at the same time all other pages (eg: http://www.indianrail.gov.in

I'm looking to build a PHP script that parses HTML for particular tags. I've been using this code block, adapted from this tutorial : <?php $data = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com'); $regex = '/<title>(.+?)</'; preg_match($regex,$data,$match); var_dump($match); echo $match[1]; ?> The script works with some websites (like google, above), but when I try it with other websites (like, say, freshdirect), I get this error: "Warning: file_get_contents( http://www.freshdirect.com ) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!" I've seen a bunch of great

I am getting the information to facebook graph api using file_get_contents() but sometimes I am receiving an error. I found out that cURL must be used instead of file_get_contents(). The problem is, I don't know how to use cURL with the URL that I need to pass. if I converted file_get_contents($graph_url); into cURL, what will be the code? here is the content of $graph_url $graph_url= "https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos?" . "url=" . urlencode($photo_url) . "&message=" . urlencode('') . "&method=POST" . "&access_token=" .$access_token; $graph_url= "https://graph.facebook.com/me/photos";

Any thoughts as to why the following is not working. $request_url = "someurl?myId=$id"; //returns feed like above $json = file_get_contents($request_url, true); //getting the file content $decode = json_decode($json, true); var_dump($json); When I paste the request_url into a browser I get back the json data but if I try in php the var_dump is simply bool(false); Any ideas?? Update and fix OK guys thanks for all the help. Ye helped me track this one down. It turned out to be the php.ini is configured to disallow the opening of urls so the file_get_contents would not work. I found the following