php Reads file/url into String : psFileGetContents()

This is used to replace file_get_contents()

Just a wrapper if local file, but uses CURL if a http(s) url

updated: 2.20.6
To speed things up, we reuse the curl object and this fixed
the issue sometimes with servers that have keep-alive on, it
would take a while to clsoe connection.

Usage:

$varFloat = psFileGetContents(URL|FILE,FLAG_TRIM);

FLAG_TRIM
true - the default, uses trim() on the return string
false - do not trim the return string (usefull for binary data)

Example:


$strPage = psFileGetContents("http://www.google.com");

Code:



function psFileGetContents($wFile, $flgTrim=true)
{
	global $_PHPSALT;

	if (substr(strtolower($wFile),0,4) == "http")
	  {
	  // curl reuse added
	  if ( $_PHPSALT['global/curl'] == false )
	    {
	    $ch = curl_init();
	    $_PHPSALT['global/curl'] =  $ch;
	    }
	  else
	    {
	    $ch = $_PHPSALT['global/curl'];
	    }

	  if ( $_PHPSALT['proxy'] !="" ) {
	    list($pHost,$pPort) = explode(":",$_PHPSALT['proxy']);
	    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $pHost);
	    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, $pPort);
	    }

	  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, TRUE);
	  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $wFile);
	  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
	  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING,'');
	  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4);
	  $buffer = curl_exec($ch);
	  //curl_close($ch);
	  }
	else
	  {
	  
	  if (@$proxy !="") {
	    stream_context_set_default(['http'=>[ 'proxy'=>$_PHPSALT['proxy'] ]]);
	    }
	  $buffer = @file_get_contents($wFile);
	  }


	if ($flgTrim == true) { $buffer = trim($buffer); }
	return $buffer;
}

Changlelog:

02-25-2019 - added option for proxy

See Also

psFile_gc()

And a shot out to:

PHP - php.net
Fedora Server - getfedora.com

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