File Copy

[sanchez77]

So my hosting server does not allow fopen anymore, so I was wondering if anyone had an alternative to copying a file from a remote server via a URL to a local folder?

 

Any alternatives is apprecited.

 

 

[Zurev]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php

 

The copy function allows you to do that, however I'm curious who your webhost is and why they restricted fopen?

[kenrbnsn]

Switch to a hosting company that allows it?

 

What are you trying to do? You might be able to use curl.

 

Ken

[sanchez77]

hey guys, feel asleep last night, my hosting company is yahoo.

 

I am trying to open a text file on NOAA servers, read it, put data into a table and then display the information. It was working fine and then they stopped it.

 

This is the code I was using , now I need a new solution.

 

$wx = array_map('trim',file("http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/realtime2/BRBN4.txt"));
$newwx = array();
foreach($wx as $i => $line) {
   if ($i > 1 && $i <  {
        $tmp = array_filter(explode(' ',$line));
        $q = "insert into brbn4 (year,month,day,hour,min,wdir,wspd,gst,waveht,dpd,apd,mwd,pres,atmp,wtmp,dewp,vis,ptdy,tide) values ('" . implode("','",$tmp) . "')";
        $rw = mysql_query($q) or die("Problem with the query: $q<br>" . mysql_error());
   }
}

[kenrbnsn]

If using file with a URL doesn't work, then using copy won't work either. Look into curl

 

Ken

[sanchez77]

uggg. ok thanks, i am going to try and use curl.

 

Thanks for your help.