Alternative to file_get_contents?

Question

$xml_file = file_get_contents(SITE_PATH . 'cms/data.php'); 

The problem is that a server has URL file-access disabled. I cannot enable it, its a hosting thing.

So the question is this. The data.php file generates xml code.

How can I execute this and get the xml data without doing the above method?

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Use cURL. This function is an alternative to file_get_contents.

function url_get_contents ($Url) {     if (!function_exists('curl_init')){          die('CURL is not installed!');     }     $ch = curl_init();     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);     $output = curl_exec($ch);     curl_close($ch);     return $output; }