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Entries Tagged as 'PHP'

Using cURL to fetch a web page

February 20th, 2007 · Comments Off

This post is PERFECT for PHP newbies and a great follow-up to my posts about cURL. It helped me get the final pieces in place to fetch an XML file and display it on my Dreamhost site. Thanks Norm!

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cURL in PHP (update)

January 18th, 2007 · Comments Off

Ironically, today I discovered the PHP manual I wish I’d found back when I first tried learning about cURL: the Practical PHP Programming wiki written mosly by Paul Hudson.  Nice, easy-to-understand cURL and PHP explanations. And wouldn’t you know it, Paul Hudson wrote the O’Reilly book

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cURL in PHP

January 17th, 2007 · Comments Off

Okay, I feel pretty good. (I always do when I solve a snarly code problem.) A few weeks ago, I loaded some PHP pages on a site I have hosted at Dreamhost, and they used the include() code to bring in results from remote files. However, Dreamhost does not allow the include code (or fopen, [...]

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