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The following code is to query an online thesaurus for a search engine I'm building as a college project, but I'm having problems with file_get_contents "failed to open stream" errors. When I send a word the thesaurus doesn't recognize, it throws up an error. I'm trying to write a piece of code that will ignore the error and just proceed without the information.
$thesaurus_search="http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/0089388bb57f/".$this->formatted_query."/php";
$result_thesaurus=file_get_contents($thesaurus_search);
I tried:
if (file_get_contents($thesaurus_search) != NULL)
{ // do stuff }
...but its not working because it still returns some sort of string.
What can I do to handle such cases?
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How to fix this error? You have to show us the code and tell us what you are trying to do so that someone can help you. Replace file_get_contents with CURL method to resolve Error of file_get_contents (): http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0
file_get_contents () is not allowed to open files with a scheme of https://. The reason for this is your PHP runtime config of allow_url_fopen set to 0. From the Runtime configuration manual: " This option enables the URL-aware fopen wrappers that enable accessing URL object like files.
@primehalo go to WHM > MultiPHP INI Editor > select PHP version and set allow_url_fopen to Enabled. In my cPanel there is a checkbox to enable allow_url_fopen in (Software)Select PHP Version > Options (tab at the top), although if this doesn't solve it for you see my answer below. Use cUrl instead of file_get_contents.
If you are are trying to use file_get_contents () function to fetch the contents of a URL and you receive Error something like Enable the allow_url_fopen parameter in your php.ini configuration. Although this is an easy approach this is not recommended because of the security holes it opens.
If you don't want file_get_contents to report HTTP errors as PHP Warnings, then this is the clean way to do it, using a stream context (there is something specifically for that):
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array('ignore_errors' => true),
));
$result = file_get_contents('http://your/url', false, $context);
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