Warez Teacher

Alternative for file_get_contents()

There are some shared webhosts that have the populair PHP function file_get_contents() disabled. Since there are alot of scripts that need to fetch data from a website it’s crucial that it works.

Therefor I offer the webmasters this alternative:

<?php
$file_contents = file_get_contents(’http://example.com/‘);

// display file
echo $file_contents;
?>

BECOMES:
<?php
$site_url = ‘http://example.com‘;
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $site_url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);

ob_start();
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$file_contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

echo $file_contents;
?>