On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Yared Hufkens <y423d@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder why you use cURL as SimpleXML itself can load URLs:
>
> $vastdata = new
> SimpleXMLElement('http://afe.specificclick.net/?l=32259&t=x&rnd=123456
> ',0,true);
>
> See http://de.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.construct.php
It is pretty convenient that SimpleXMLElement allows you to grab URL's, but
curl allows me to manually set a timeout limit (along with many other
things, although they're not necessarily needed in Rob's example), so I
tend to use curl in this type situation, too.
Adam
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