PHP fopen or cURL

[RFH Reseller: Wise Webs]

Hi All

I am trying to implement a simple ad banner on a site and I have obtained code to add the banner ad to the page. Note that I am not a PHP guru at all.

Question: I have the option of PHP code that uses fopen or cURL. Is their any particular one that doesnt work with RFH PHP? I have tried both sets of code and neither seem to work?

If anyone can verify the code I would be very appreciative.

many thanks

Alastair

fopen code

if(!function_exists('banner_script'))
{
function banner_script()
{
if(!isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) $server_ip = '-';
else $server_ip = urlencode($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
if(!isset($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])) $server_name = '-';
else $server_name = urlencode($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
if(!isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) $uri = '-';
else $uri = urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
if(!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) $ua = '-';
else $ua = urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

    if(!$fp = fopen('http://www.MyBannerAdDomain.com/adserver.php?pubid=10391&ip='.$server_ip.'&uri='.$server_name.$uri.'&ua='.$ua,'r')) echo ' ';
    else
    {
    echo ' ';
         while(!feof($fp)) echo fgets($fp);
    fclose($fp);
    }
}
banner_script();
} 

cURL script

if(!function_exists('banner_script'))
{
function banner_script()
{
if(!isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) $server_ip = '-';
else $server_ip = urlencode($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
if(!isset($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'])) $server_name = '-';
else $server_name = urlencode($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
if(!isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) $uri = '-';
else $uri = urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
if(!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) $ua = '-';
else $ua = urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

$ch = curl_init('http://www.MyBannerAdDomain.com/adserver.php?pubid=10391&ip='.$server_ip.'&uri='.$server_name.$uri.'&ua='.$ua);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,5);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
    if(!$ad = curl_exec($ch)) RETURN ' ';
    else
    {
    $request = curl_getinfo($ch);
        if($request['http_code'] != 200) echo ' ';
        else echo $ad;
    }
curl_close($ch);
}
banner_script();
} 

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

Why dont either work, is there an error?

[RFH Reseller: Wise Webs]

Why dont either work, is there an error?

It wasnt returning any info at all. However, I have just heard that the adserver is currently down.


sorry to the knee jerk post.....