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Hi,

I am stuck with the issue.

Trying to retrieve rss from my url to a sub path, I am getting false. But the rss appears when retrieving it from the browser.

Here is my code. Could someone please advice me on what I should do ?

    $this->feed = 'https://www.appsoma.com/blog/rss';
    
    print_r($this->feed);echo PHP_EOL;
    
    // die('getting feed url');
    
    $feed = file_get_contents($this->feed);
    
    var_dump($feed);
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What is your php.ini configuration? In special the allow_url_fopen value.


Here is some code in PHP to get the content of an external URL, but using the CURL (recommended).

function get_content($URL){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}

echo get_content(‘http://example.com’);

If you dont have curl installed on your server, here is some tips for CentOS:


yum install curl
yum install php-curl
yum install rh-php70-php-curl


The install of PHP depends on the version that you are using.

Credits: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3488425/php-ini-file-get-contents-external-url