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Specter
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I want to access a file that is on a server that has an SSL certificate as well as a username/password auth and save it to a string. This is what I'm trying:


$site = "https://user:pass@hostname";
$xml_page = file_get_contents($site);
echo $xml_page;

This is what I'm getting:

Warning: file_get_contents(https://user:pass@hostname) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/xmlparser/parse.php on line 17

I'm not sure if openSSL is installed, but would that cause a "no such file" warning? What else could I try to accomplish this?

[Edited on March 9, 2009 at 5:10 PM. Reason : ]

3/9/2009 5:08:01 PM

philihp
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do you have libcurl installed?

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-use-curl-in-php-for-authentication-and-ssl-communication/

3/9/2009 5:33:13 PM

Shadowrunner
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have you tried using cURL?

[Edited on March 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM. Reason : philihp beat me to it; http://us3.php.net/curl anyway]

3/9/2009 5:34:05 PM

mellocj
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open up a phpinfo() and see what allow_url_fopen is set to. If its set to 0 then it should disable opening a remote URL with file_get_contents

you may be able to override it with php_admin_value

3/9/2009 5:45:01 PM

Specter
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I got it working with curl. However, I'm having a problem parsing a string containing xml code that is formatted the following way:


<?xml ...>
<GetColorList>
<ColorList>
<Color Name="Red" IsDefined="0" IsPresent="1">
<Color Name="Blue" IsDefined="0" IsPresent="0">
<Color Name="Green" IsDefined="0" IsPresent="1">
</ColorList>
</GetColorList>

How do I parse it in such a way where I can get just the color name and then the status of IsPresent displayed together, like so:


Red 1
Blue 0
Green 1

I've tried using explode() as well as a tokenizer, but I can't seem to think of a way to do this off the top of my head. I've also tried playing around with php's built-in xml parsers but it doesn't seem to work on the inside of the tags. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Edited on March 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM. Reason : ]

3/16/2009 12:11:11 PM

qntmfred
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Quote :
"php's built-in xml parsers"

keep looking

[Edited on March 16, 2009 at 12:14 PM. Reason : keyword xml node attribute]

3/16/2009 12:13:51 PM

Specter
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Anything in particular that might work in PHP4?

3/16/2009 2:21:53 PM

qntmfred
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http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.domattribute-value.php

3/16/2009 2:24:17 PM

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