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Old 01-07-2009, 07:16 PM   #13 (permalink)
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An alternative to using curl would be:
PHP Code:
/* $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 15);
 curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,  self::BROWSER);

 $url_string = curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch);*/
$opts = array(
    
'http'=>array(
        
'method'=>"GET",
        
'header'=>"User-Agent: ".self::BROWSER." \r\n"
    
)
);
$url_string file_get_contents($url,false,stream_context_create($opts));
return 
simplexml_load_string($url_string); 
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