file_get_Contents won't send query strings in url , thus receiving nothing with $_GET

Question

I'm trying to make a request to a website this way :

file_get_contents('http://www.yahoo.com/index.php?var=value');

in the index.php file ( Receiver ) , when I try to echo $_GET['var'] from within the index.php and get the response with file_Get_contents, I get nothing. curl is getting it right , but I just want to know it this way in case curl is not installed

sender:

echo file_get_contents('http://www.yahoo.com/index.php?var=value');

receiver : index.php contains

<?php
echo $_GET['var'];
?>

Answer 1

file_get_contents returns the content of the file.

$var = file_get_contents('http://www.yahoo.com/index.php?var=value');

The function returns the read data or FALSE on failure. http://php.net

Answer 2

Try something like this in your receiver...

$uri = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
echo $uri["query"];