Read File Problem

[lintz]

I'm trying to read a txt file from another site but no matter what I try I get the below error.

Warning: fopen(http://www.mysite.com/files/myfile.txt): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

This is the code I've tried....

$handle = fopen("http://www.mysite.com/files/myfile.txt", "r");

and

$handle = file('http://www.mysite.com/files/myfile.txt');

[uainfantry]

Why not use include?

[Inuyasha1782]

Er, I don't think those commands support opening files outside of the server. Is that what you are trying to do? If not, then don't include the "http://www.mysite.com/" in there, simply just include "/files....".

[lintz]

uainfantry, can I use include for a file on another website?

eg. my site = www.mysite1.com

file i want resides on www.mysite2.com

[uainfantry]

Yea, it will load the file into a table or whatever you want to load into.

include('http://www.mysite2.com/index.html')

[penagate]

Include is not the same as fopen(). To use the file functions across HTTP you need to set allow_url_fopen = 1 in php.ini. If you are getting a bad request error then try accessing it through the browser, it may be a misconfiguration on the remote server.