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In PHP, file_get_contents is the preferred way to read the contents of a file into a string. It will use memory mapping techniques (if supported by your OS) to enhance performance.

In PHP, file_get_contents is used to read an entire file into a single string. Depending on the server configuration, it can also be used to read URLs as well. It differs from file(), in that file is designed to return a resource pointer and then used read the file in chunks (i.e. CSV files). Use file for large files that should not be read all at once. Use file_get_contents to read smaller files and files that cannot be read as easily read in chunks (i.e. JSON)

For more details see the PHP manual entry.

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loop a file_get_contents until getting a non empty JSON in php

I have the following code:
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php emulate going to a webpage that constantly changes cookie

I have a webpage that I'd like to go to programmatically with PHP. I can go to that webpage "by hand" with chrome, right-click "inspect element" and find the cookie that is getting used when I visit the page. I then created a context with PHP…
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Load db.sql file into db using PDO

i use file_get_contents to get the queries from the file but now how can i load all of them into a mariadb database by using PDO? With mysqli i know there is a function called mysqli_multi_query is there another function that does the same but with…
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php - Trying to download URLs from CSV, it stops at random URLs

I've tried searching for this issue but couldn't find out why it is actually failing at random stages. I have a CSV with 2 columns, ID and URL, there are 100 rows. I have the following code to loop through the CSV rows and use put_file_contents() to…
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Php file_get_contents not capturing certain group of cookies

I have created a script to automate downloading a file created by an app that sends an email notice to the user when the file is generated. This script logs in, then executes a second time with some session items set on the host site and is able to…
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php file_get_contents() works on test server but not on production server

I've my code in test server which uses file_get_contents() to get the status from a url. The test server link is: http://test1one.epizy.com/portal/test_api.php It works as it should and gives me the appropriate "Active" or "Inactive" response…
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PHP file_exists With Contents Instead of Name?

Is there a function built into PHP that acts like file_exists, but given file contents instead of the file name? I need this because I have a site where people can upload an image. The image is stored in a file with a name determined by my program…
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How to convert a file_get_contents url with authentication to a cURL request

I have a script which gets some contents from a url using file_get_contents() $auth_headers = 'Authorization: Basic '.$api_credentials."\r\n". 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'."\r\n"; $auth_context…
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read webpage (with dynamic content) and save

Im using file_get_contents() and the source is a url. Im also using ajax to insert html into the page. The page when loaded:
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PHP5 webpage scan (simple DOM parser || file_get_contents()+regexp)... resources wise

I was thinking about a script that would scan 10+ websites for specific content inside a specific div. Let's say it would be moderately used, some 400 searches a day. Which of the two in the title would support better the load, take less resources…
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Request remote file with file_get_contents()

I need to query a page on another domain and display the results returned by it. But the php file reports an error. The url is: http://otherdomain/abc.jsp?p=q&x=y EDIT: I use file_get_contents...
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how to get HTML/JSON from Instagram URL as a Browser in php?

As you know instagram Suspended his API,but for my app, i use below codes to get JSON of instagram page's posts: ini_set("allow_url_fopen", 1); $urlvars = urlencode('{"id":"'.$user_id.'","first":12,"after":"'.$end_cursor.'"}'); $url =…
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Passing User-Agent string with file_get_contents to Discogs API failing

Trying to retrieve some info from the Discogs API but I'm getting "Bad Request" every time I hit it programmatically. If I run the same url in the browser it works just fine, but as they require a User-Agent string to be specified in the request…
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php file download works from browser but not cron job

I've looked on this site to see if anyone has this exact problem to no avail. I'm trying to download a URL using file_get_contents but while it works when I type the URL of the php script into my browser, the file is not obtained when I run the…
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PHP: GET # of characters from a URL and then stop/exit?

For parsing large files on the internet, or just wanting to get the opengraph tags of a website, is there a way to GET a webpage's first 1000 characters and then to stop downloading anything else from the page? When a file is several megabytes, it…
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