Depending on how locked down the php.ini file is (lots of good reasons to
do this) you might look into curl.

http://curl.haxx.se/

Curl can work in php.

http://us.php.net/curl

It talks lots of protocols (including https, which is how I got on board),
including gopher for any killer apps you have planned.

-t

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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, John McGrath wrote:

> You could use either the PEAR HTTP_Request package, or the built-in
> fopen/fread commands, which can make http calls in addition to
> opening local files. The easiest way, though, in my opinion, is
> file_get_contents, which automatically dumps the response into a
> String object. And it's fast, apparently:
>
> http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
>
> http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request
> http://us.php.net/fopen
> http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php
>
> Best,
> John
>
> On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Andrew Hankinson wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>> I'm wanting to implement a PHP parser for an OAI-PMH response from our
>> Dspace installation.  I'm a bit stuck on one point: how do I get
>> the PHP
>> script to send a request to the OAI-PMH server, and get the XML
>> response in
>> return so I can then parse it?
>>
>> Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated!
>>
>> Andrew