URL access from PHP

[buzznick]

Hi all,

What is the best way to have a PHP script access another URL on a remote server. For example, let's say I have a PHP script on my server but I want to get the text returned by "

http://someotherserver.com/somescript.php"

Thanks,
Nick

 

[DRJ478]

1. if URL wrappers are enables use file_get_contents
2. cURL
3. socket connections or streams

#1 works fine, but is not guaranteed to be enabled on all hosts. I usually go with option #3 since fsockopen() is native PHP and will be available anywhere.