file_get_contents issue php level server

[Twysted]

can someone tell me why file_get_contents isn't working for me on the level server

 

[descalzo]

1. How are you using it (ie, post some code)
2. Any error messages?

 

[Twysted]

<?php
$url="http://thebot.net/api/post2.php";
$c = file_get_contents($url);
$c = utf8_encode($c);
$r = json_decode($c, true);

$user=$r->{'username'};
$gr1=$r->{'usergroup'};
$gr2=$r->{'secondary'};
$posts=$r->{'posts'};

//$action=switch($gr2);
if(is_array($gr2) && !(in_array("Coder",$gr2)))
{
    echo '<a href="https://www.coderprofile.com/coder/Enterprise-PHP" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.coderprofile.com/images/badges/follow-me/style-2/user-bar-1.png" /></a>';
}
if(isset($gr1) && $gr1 == 'TBN Member'))
{
    echo '<a href="http://thebot.net/payments.php" target="_blank">click here to remove this ad</a> sponsored by TBN';
}
?>

there are no errors. just a blank page.

 

[pnk]

http://thebot.net/api/post2.php returns -> "Please Post On TBN", and the script is then encoding this string into $c again. After that, you are decoding it as json source. I believe this is not correct. for the blank page issue. Try commenting out all lines and then relieving one by one each line while testing.

 

[descalzo]

Agree with pnk. The problem seems to be that the URL you are requesting is not what you were expecting.

After the second line,

$c = file_get_contents($url);

Add

echo $c ;

and see what the function returns and compare that with what your browser returns for that URL.

 

[bdistler]

also I see one extra " ) " on the end of this line:

if(isset($gr1) && $gr1 == 'TBN Member'))

 

[Twysted]

you guys are not seeing the url because you are not logged into that site. it is an api to a forum. this is for a dynamic signature for that forum. Thank you bdistler, i did not see that, and thus why i need someone else to look at it for me. I should prolly turn on error reporting as well.

 

[descalzo]

I we can't see whatever you are trying to get from that URL because we are not logged id, how is your script supposed to?

And as I said, put an "echo" statement to show what your are getting back. Not after your run it through a dozen other functions, but right at the source.

 

[Twysted]

I we can't see whatever you are trying to get from that URL because we are not logged id, how is your script supposed to?

And as I said, put an "echo" statement to show what your are getting back. Not after your run it through a dozen other functions, but right at the source.

my script can see it fine. its added to a white list. you can't see it cause you don't have access to it. it is a json record if that makes you feel any better.

 

[leafypiggy]

Turn on error reporting. You're not getting output from your script.