file_get_contents get file from string not working

Question

File I'm trying to save is from this url;

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D09102010

This does not work (only with this url): file_get_contents($string)

But this works just fine: file_get_contents('http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D09102010')

I've even tried to use quotes thinking it might help, no luck.

Answer 1

Well i made a webcrawler using file_get_content and when i add $string as parameter for this function it works just fine!

Maybe you don't have a value for $string.

$string = 'http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=' .date('dmy');

get_file_content($string);

Answer 2

Assuming your "save function" is called emcgfx_save_file() ...

<?php
    $file = file_get_contents('http://domain.com/file?b=M%5ea11239b8576126bcb5038dfdb92fasf21&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com%2Ffile.php%3Fdate%3D09102010');
    emcgfx_save_file( $file );

is functionally identical to

<?php
    $string = 'http://domain.com/file?b=M%5ea11239b8576126bcb5038dfdb92fasf21&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com%2Ffile.php%3Fdate%3D09102010';
    $file = file_get_contents($string);
    unset( $string );
    emcgfx_save_file( $file );

If one works, and the other does not, then there's something strange going on. If you try this, and it doesn't solve your problem, try to give us some more info -- for example, when it "doesn't work" what error are you receiving?

Answer 3

$string = 'http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=' .date('dmy');

Answer 4

Thank you guys.