[PHP] php wget: Return an empty file

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Blake
Greetings PHP(eople), I have a wget process that runs to download a file from a web site, however, if no file exists at the location I`m pulsing, how do I get it to abort ? Here is the code : ?php $getfile = 'wget -dv -o log.txt http://www.somesite.co.za/somefile.php'; $get =

Re: [PHP] php wget: Return an empty file [Solved]

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Blake
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 09:47, Chris Blake wrote: Greetings PHP(eople), I have a wget process that runs to download a file from a web site, however, if no file exists at the location I`m pulsing, how do I get it to abort ? Here is the code : ?php $getfile = 'wget -dv -o log.txt

Re: [PHP] php wget: Return an empty file

2005-04-08 Thread Josip Dzolonga
Chris Blake wrote: Greetings PHP(eople), I have a wget process that runs to download a file from a web site, Why would you do that ? There're bultin functions in PHP for doing it. -- Josip Dzolonga http://josip.dotgeek.org jdzolonga[at]gmail.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] php wget: Return an empty file

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Blake
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:52, Josip Dzolonga wrote: Chris Blake wrote: Greetings PHP(eople), I have a wget process that runs to download a file from a web site, Why would you do that ? There're bultin functions in PHP for doing it. wget was the first thing I thought of :) -- Chris

Re: [PHP] php wget: Return an empty file

2005-04-08 Thread Josip Dzolonga
Chris Blake wrote: wget was the first thing I thought of :) You thought wrong :-) Are you are going to parse the file after you've downloaded it ? See this function, http://www.php.net/file_get_contents , if allow_url_fopen is set to TRUE in your php.ini, there will be no problems opening a