How can I handle the warning of file_get_contents&

Question

I wrote a PHP code like this

$site="http://www.google.com";
$content = file_get_content($site);
echo $content;

But when I remove "http://" from $site I get the following warning:

Warning: file_get_contents(www.google.com) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream:

I tried try and catch but it didn't work.

Answer 1

Here's how I handle that:

$this->response_body = @file_get_contents($this->url, false, $context);
if ($this->response_body === false) {
    $error = error_get_last();
    $error = explode(': ', $error['message']);
    $error = trim($error[2]) . PHP_EOL;
    fprintf(STDERR, 'Error: '. $error);
    die();
}

Answer 2

You can prepend an @: $content = @file_get_contents($site);

This will supress any warning - use sparingly!. See Error Control Operators

Edit: When you remove the 'http://' you're no longer looking for a web page, but a file on your disk called "www.google....."

Answer 3

Since PHP 4 use error_reporting():

$site="http://www.google.com";
$old_error_reporting = error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_WARNING);
$content = file_get_content($site);
error_reporting($old_error_reporting);
if ($content === FALSE) {
    echo "Error getting '$site'";
} else {
    echo $content;
}

Answer 4

Step 1: check the return code: if($content === FALSE) { // handle error here... }

Step 2: suppress the warning by putting an error control operator (i.e. @) in front of the call to file_get_contents(): $content = @file_get_contents($site);

Answer 5

try {
   $site="http://www.google.com";
   $content = file_get_content($site);
   echo $content;
} catch (ErrorException $e) {
    // fix the url

}

set_error_handler(function ($errorNumber, $errorText, $errorFile,$errorLine ) 
{
    throw new ErrorException($errorText, 0, $errorNumber, $errorFile, $errorLine);
});

Answer 6

function custom_file_get_contents($url) {
    return file_get_contents(
        $url,
        false,
        stream_context_create(
            array(
                'http' => array(
                    'ignore_errors' => true
                )
            )
        )
    );
}

$content=FALSE;

if($content=custom_file_get_contents($url)) {
    //play with the result
} else {
    //handle the error
}