On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Rob Gould <gouldimg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I'm trying to get the > VASTAdTagURI field from the XML data at this url: > > http://afe.specificclick.net/?l=32259&t=x&rnd=123456 > > > > > Here's my code. (below). It works maybe 30% of the time, but most of the > time it just returns nothing from that field. Yet when I go to the above > url in Firefox, I always see the data. This is very strange. > > > > > > // Lets get the ad! > > $curl_handle=curl_init(); > curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,' > http://afe.specificclick.net/?l=32259&t=x&rnd=123456'); > curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2); > curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); > $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle); > curl_close($curl_handle); > > $vastdata = new SimpleXMLElement($buffer); > > $vasturi = $vastdata->Ad->Wrapper->VASTAdTagURI; > > echo "If the script works, vasturi = " . $vasturi; > > echo "<br><br><br>"; > > print_r($vastdata); > I'd try adding some error checks to see what issues curl may be having: $str = curl_exec($ch); $error_no = curl_errno($ch); curl_close ($ch); if ($error_no != 0) throw new Exception('There was an error retrieving the string contents of the url \''.$url.'\'. CURL error number:'.$error_no); I wonder if you transaction is timing out, which you can set as below: curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $transaction_timeout = 2); Adam -- Nephtali: A simple, flexible, fast, and security-focused PHP framework http://nephtaliproject.com
