PHP - Read file on foreign server?

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I need to read a file on a foreign server.

Apart from cURL and file_get_contents() are there any other ways to read the file using PHP?

This needs to be deployed on a variety of servers and some servers we are deploying to are really cheap shared hosts. These often have configurations that disable either or both of these methods.

The file I need to get is an XML file if that makes any difference.

daiscog · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-21 09:12:23Z

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If the target is an XML file, you could try using PHP's DOM implementation. For example:

<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('http://www.w3schools.com/xml/guestbook.asp');
header("Content-type: text/xml");
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>

answered Oct 21, 2011 at 9:12

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Jase Whatson · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-21 09:06:12Z

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You can always use a raw socket http://php.net/manual/en/book.sockets.php

or call out to the shell and use curl or wget from there

answered Oct 21, 2011 at 9:06

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