Hello..

I need to download an ASCII file from an external server to the server PHP is hosted, using PHP.

The reason I want to do this, is because I need to work with a file located in an external server.

I tried opening the file directly by passing the url as the file to open, but it said that allow_url_fopen is disabled.

I was suggested to use mod_socket to download the file, but it seems that mod_socket is disabled, because when I try to use socket_create; it says that I'm making a call to an undefined function...

So what can I do to download the file?

Thanks.

code:

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        function geturl($url)
        {
                $ch = curl_init();

                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER , 1);

                $out = curl_exec($ch);
                curl_close($ch);
                return $out;
        }

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Thanks segosa, working fine