In a previous post I talked about using the HttpRequest object and functions in the PECL_HTTP extension to make HTTP requests from PHP. In some cases you may be limited to using functionality built into the PHP core. The file_get_contents() function has less features than the PECL_HTTP extension but it is built into PHP 4.3 [...]
The very informative phpinfo() function The phpinfo() function displays just about everything you want to know about your PHP installation. It includes info on all your PECL and PEAR modules so it is a quick way to check what’s installed. It will also tell you useful web server information including any query strings you pass. [...]
In a recent post I talked about the PECL_HTTP extension for PHP. In this post I will cover a few of the options you can set for the HttpRequest object and related functions. The PECL_HTTP extension allows you to set a number of options when you make a request. Usually you put the options in [...]
In a previous post, we created a simple PHP page that told us if http://www.example.com is up or down by using the PECL HTTP extension to make an HTTP request to the site and look for the string “example” in the response. Here is the code for our test page, httptest.php: <?php $http_req = new [...]
On some distributions PHP error reporting or display of errors is disabled by default as a security precaution. This is a good idea for production systems because errors may reveal useful information to undesirables. In a development environment on the other hand, it is generally useful to see your errors. If error display is disabled [...]
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