How can I handle the warning of file_get_contents() function in PHP?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/272361

Question

I wrote a PHP code like this

$site="http://www.google.com";
$content = file_get_content($site);
echo $content;

But when I remove "http://" from $site I get the following warning:

Warning: file_get_contents(www.google.com) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream:

I tried try and catch but it didn't work.

Was it helpful?

Solution

Step 1: check the return code: if($content === FALSE) { // handle error here... }

Step 2: suppress the warning by putting an error control operator (i.e. @) in front of the call to file_get_contents(): $content = @file_get_contents($site);

OTHER TIPS

You can also set your error handler as an anonymous function that calls an Exception and use a try / catch on that exception.

set_error_handler(
    function ($severity, $message, $file, $line) {
        throw new ErrorException($message, $severity, $severity, $file, $line);
    }
);

try {
    file_get_contents('www.google.com');
}
catch (Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
}

restore_error_handler();

Seems like a lot of code to catch one little error, but if you're using exceptions throughout your app, you would only need to do this once, way at the top (in an included config file, for instance), and it will convert all your errors to Exceptions throughout.

My favourite way to do this is fairly simple:

if (!$data = file_get_contents("http://www.google.com")) {
      $error = error_get_last();
      echo "HTTP request failed. Error was: " . $error['message'];
} else {
      echo "Everything went better than expected";
}

I found this after experimenting with the try/catch from @enobrev above, but this allows for less lengthy (and IMO, more readable) code. We simply use error_get_last to get the text of the last error, and file_get_contents returns false on failure, so a simple "if" can catch that.

You can prepend an @: $content = @file_get_contents($site);

This will supress any warning - use sparingly!. See Error Control Operators

Edit: When you remove the 'http://' you're no longer looking for a web page, but a file on your disk called "www.google....."

One alternative is to suppress the error and also throw an exception which you can catch later. This is especially useful if there are multiple calls to file_get_contents() in your code, since you don't need to suppress and handle all of them manually. Instead, several calls can be made to this function in a single try/catch block.

// Returns the contents of a file
function file_contents($path) {
    $str = @file_get_contents($path);
    if ($str === FALSE) {
        throw new Exception("Cannot access '$path' to read contents.");
    } else {
        return $str;
    }
}

// Example
try {
    file_contents("a");
    file_contents("b");
    file_contents("c");
} catch (Exception $e) {
    // Deal with it.
    echo "Error: " , $e->getMessage();
}

Here's how I did it... No need for try-catch block... The best solution is always the simplest... Enjoy!

$content = @file_get_contents("http://www.google.com");
if (strpos($http_response_header[0], "200")) { 
   echo "SUCCESS";
} else { 
   echo "FAILED";
} 

function custom_file_get_contents($url) {
    return file_get_contents(
        $url,
        false,
        stream_context_create(
            array(
                'http' => array(
                    'ignore_errors' => true
                )
            )
        )
    );
}

$content=FALSE;

if($content=custom_file_get_contents($url)) {
    //play with the result
} else {
    //handle the error
}

Here's how I handle that:

$this->response_body = @file_get_contents($this->url, false, $context);
if ($this->response_body === false) {
    $error = error_get_last();
    $error = explode(': ', $error['message']);
    $error = trim($error[2]) . PHP_EOL;
    fprintf(STDERR, 'Error: '. $error);
    die();
}

The best thing would be to set your own error and exception handlers which will do something usefull like logging it in a file or emailing critical ones. http://www.php.net/set_error_handler

You could use this script

$url = @file_get_contents("http://www.itreb.info");
if ($url) {
    // if url is true execute this 
    echo $url;
} else {
    // if not exceute this 
    echo "connection error";
}

Since PHP 4 use error_reporting():

$site="http://www.google.com";
$old_error_reporting = error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_WARNING);
$content = file_get_content($site);
error_reporting($old_error_reporting);
if ($content === FALSE) {
    echo "Error getting '$site'";
} else {
    echo $content;
}

Simplest way to do this is just prepend an @ before file_get_contents, i. e.:

$content = @file_get_contents($site);

something like this:

public function get($curl,$options){
    $context = stream_context_create($options);
    $file = @file_get_contents($curl, false, $context);
    $str1=$str2=$status=null;
    sscanf($http_response_header[0] ,'%s %d %s', $str1,$status, $str2);
    if($status==200)
        return $file        
    else 
        throw new \Exception($http_response_header[0]);
}

This will try to get the data, if it does not work, it will catch the error and allow you to do anything you need within the catch.

try {
    $content = file_get_contents($site);
} catch(\Exception $e) {
    return 'The file was not found';
}

You should use file_exists() function before to use file_get_contents(). With this way you'll avoid the php warning.

$file = "path/to/file";

if(file_exists($file)){
  $content = file_get_contents($file);
}

Change the file php.ini

allow_url_fopen = On

allow_url_include = On

try {
   $site="http://www.google.com";
   $content = file_get_content($site);
   echo $content;
} catch (ErrorException $e) {
    // fix the url

}

set_error_handler(function ($errorNumber, $errorText, $errorFile,$errorLine ) 
{
    throw new ErrorException($errorText, 0, $errorNumber, $errorFile, $errorLine);
});

You should also set the

allow_url_use = On

in your php.ini to stop receiving warnings.

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