Query to external URL from PHP not working

[beginner00777]

Hi Friends

I'm new to x10 web hosting and I must say its really amazing.

But making a query to an external URL from PHP is not working here. Is it blocked here at x10 ? My PHP code looks like below ...

$requestURL = 'http://abc.zyx.com/test.csv';
$strTemp = file_get_contents($requestURL);

Please help me. Note that its working perfectly on my own PC but the call to external URLs are not going through PHP code @ x10

Thank you.

[descalzo]

Does it generate an error? Or just fail silently?

I think that file_get_contents does not work here for URLs.

[beginner00777]

Does it generate an error? Or just fail silently?

I think that file_get_contents does not work here for URLs.

I'm getting no errors. It simply silently fails
And get around apart from file_get_contents() using PHP here @ x10 ???
I'm trying to get the stock quotes data from yahoo finance.

[theone48]

Hi and welcome beginner.

descalzo, what in the world is this PHP??? Another member needed some help with it too in the preceding post:

PHP Mail()

[misson]

@theone48: that thread is completely unrelated. Please stop posting noise.

[theone48]

Sorry, stupid question I guess. The guy was asking about PHP though, whatever it means.

[cybrax]

Hi Friends

I'm new to x10 web hosting and I must say its really amazing.

But making a query to an external URL from PHP is not working here. Is it blocked here at x10 ? My PHP code looks like below ... Please help me. Note that its working perfectly on my own PC but the call to external URLs are not going through PHP code @ x10

Thank you.

Believe that 'descalzo' is correct, free hosting accounts are not allowed to query an external URL using cURL, fopen or file_get_contents. This keeps the amateur site scrapers from causing problems that would otherwise overload the shared server resources. If you can explain why you're tring to pull content from another domain into your own we may be able to suggest an alternative method.

[descalzo]

Well, upon further investigation, the function does work (at least on Chopin) and will retrieve www.cnn.com .

So, unless you post the full and complete code you use (including the URL you use), I cannot help further.