Hello all,

This is my code:

PHP Code:

$url = "userreview.php?reviewID=1";
$str = file_get_contents($url);
echo $str; 


Simple, right? That's supposed to get the contents of userreview.php with reviewID as 1. But this doesn't work. Just typing userreview.php works, but the ?reviewID=1 does not work.

How could I make it so that it works?

Thanks

PHP Code:

$url = 'http://domain.com/path/userreview.php?reviewID=1'; 


Try using the complete url

That still won't work, because it's local. Besides, you can put an <a href" like what I put and it works...

but the ?reviewID=1 does not work.

describe "does not work".

It doesn't work... Like, if I put just the userreview.php in the variable, then it would grab userreview.php, but I want it to grab only the reviewID of 1. It doesn't work, it's not functionable.

Like in YouTube, there's always youtube.com/?watch=v then random crap. They have it so that on the results page it shows the title of the video. That's exactly what I need. I need it to look at that page, find the title, and then echo it.

How, though?

So there is no errors, no message.
Just that the page doesn't do what it should do.
Is that right ?

In that case, the problem is in your userreview.php script, not in the part you pasted up there.

Oh, I have an error that says:

Warning: file_get_contents(userreview.php?reviewID=8) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pgreviews/web/userreview.php on line 95

Which pretty much says that userreview.php?reviewID=8 doesn't exist...?

Sorry I didn't post the error before, I can be really stupid sometimes :S

Which pretty much says that userreview.php?reviewID=8 doesn't exist...?

No, file_get_contents() can work with url, but as NullPointer told you, you need to use the full url to access an url.
By giving just what you given, the funxtion tries to find a file named "userreview.php?reviewID=8", which doesn't exists.

Your solution: give the full url, as pointed before.

I think when there is no protocol and domain, it sees it as a local file path. (???)

Oh...

I think I was doing this whole thing wrong anyway... What I really need done is the script to grab everything between the <div id="reviewmaintitle"> and the first </div>. That's seriously all I need.

It won't work for local domain if your server cannot resolve the domain name correctly (which it most like cannot because you did not setup DNS).

What is the reason of getting page contents from LOCAL domain with file_get_contents()? Can't you just read it from database or wherever else it is stored?

Yes, true. I could do that, but the trouble it, I need only part of it.

I had enough trouble getting it to display at all... Let alone getting part of it...

I would need to

Get the reviewID for it.
Get the contents of the div 'reviewmaintitle'.
Send it back to userreview.php
Echo it. Only the last 2 reviews (the new ones)!

It's tough. And I'm just getting into this.

Originally Posted by Physicsguy

I had enough trouble getting it to display at all...

Maybe you should rethink your approach in that case? What are you trying to display and what makes it so hard?

I've gotten that working, I don't really need to explain it, I'm not gonna touch it, it works!