How can i use fsockopen on my site?

Question

I'm using curreny codes on my site. With the following:

<?php
$contents = file_get_contents('http://www.tcmb.gov.tr/kurlar/today.html'); 
$contents = iconv("windows-1254" , "utf8" , $contents);

$dollar = preg_match('~ABD DOLARI\s+(.+?)\s+(.+?)\s+~i', $contents, $matches) ? array('buying' => $matches[1], 'selling' => $matches[2]) : ''; 
$euro = preg_match('~EURO\s+(.+?)\s+(.+?)\s+~i', $contents, $matches) ? array('buying' => $matches[1], 'selling' => $matches[2]) : ''; 
$gbp = preg_match('~İNGİLİZ STERLİNİ\s+(.+?)\s+(.+?)\s+~i', $contents, $matches) ? array('buying' => $matches[1], 'selling' => $matches[2]) : ''; 
$chf = preg_match('~İSVİÇRE FRANGI\s+(.+?)\s+(.+?)\s+~i', $contents, $matches) ? array('buying' => $matches[1], 'selling' => $matches[2]) : ''; 

echo ' 
    <table class="form" style="background:#fff;width:300px;margin-left:14px;"> 
        <tr style="border-bottom:1px solid #e4e4e4;">
        ..

But today my site is give error:

Warning: eval() (/var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/modules/php/php.module(80) : eval()'d code dosyasının 2 satırı) içinde file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0.

I did ask my to hosting support about this problem and they are say:

"Don't use fopen option, please use 'fsockopen'" But i don't know how can i do this?

Plese help me. Thanks.

Using `fsockopen` is **not** a good solution. Use curl instead. You might also want to tell your hosting company that url_fopen_wrappers are perfectly safe as long as url includes are disabled. — ThiefMaster, Oct 16 '12 at 15:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 16 '12 at 16:33

Use curl instead then. A function to replace file_get_contents from a remote server is:

function get_web_page( $url ) {
    $options = array(
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page
    CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects
    CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings
    CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "spider", // who am i
    CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect
    CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects
    );

    $ch      = curl_init( $url );
    curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
    $content = curl_exec( $ch );
    $err     = curl_errno( $ch );
    $errmsg  = curl_error( $ch );
    $header  = curl_getinfo( $ch );
    curl_close( $ch );

    $header['errno']   = $err;
    $header['errmsg']  = $errmsg;
    $header['content'] = $content;
        //If you want error information, 'return $header;' instead.
    return $content;
}

From there change $contents = file_get_contents('http://www.tcmb.gov.tr/kurlar/today.html'); to $contents = get_web_page('http://www.tcmb.gov.tr/kurlar/today.html');

How can i use fsockopen on my site?

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