CURL alternative to fopen

[Momo]

I'm installing a script which uses the fopen function, but my host Dreamhost has disabled this feature for security reasons. The suggested alternative was to use CURL, but I'm clueless as to what should I replace the code with.

Here is the part of the code which uses the said function:

$file = fopen($filename, "r");
        if (!$file) 
        {
            echo "<p>Unable to open remote file $filename.\n";
        }
        else
        {
            while (!feof($file))
            {
                $var = fgets($file, 1024);
                if(eregi("<font color=#008000>(.*)</font><nobr>",$var,$out))
                {
                    $out[1] = strtolower(strip_tags($out[1]));

$s1=str_replace("http://","",$out[1]);  
$ur1=str_replace("www.","",$s1);
$s=strpos($ur1," ");
if ($s > 3)$ur1=substr($ur1,0,$s);
$s=strpos($ur1,"/");
if ($s > 3)$ur1=substr($ur1,0,$s);
$ur1=str_replace("/","",$ur1);

                    $position++;
           
                   if($ur==$ur1)
                    {
                        $found = $position;          
                        break;
                    } 
                }
            }
        }
        fclose($file);    
    }

Could anybody guide me as to how to replace the fopen, fgets, etc functions with the CURL alternatives? Thanks a lot!

 

[Eric]

Something like:

$url = 'http://www.someurl.com/';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$var = curl_exec($ch);

if(eregi("<font color=#008000>(.*)</font><nobr>", $var, $out))
{
  $out[1] = strtolower(strip_tags($out[1]));
  $s1 = str_replace("http://", "", $out[1]);
  $ur1 = str_replace("www.", "", $s1);
  $s = strpos($ur1, " ");

  if($s > 3)
  {
    $ur1=substr($ur1, 0, $s);
  }
  $s = strpos($ur1, "/");

  if($s > 3)
  {
    $ur1 = substr($ur1, 0, $s);
  }
  $ur1 = str_replace("/", "", $ur1);
  $position++;

  if($ur == $ur1)
  {
    $found = $position;
    break;
  }
}
//Once done with everything...
curl_close($ch);

 

[Momo]

Thank you SecondVersion, the code your posted worked well for me! :D Thanks again!

 

[Eric]

No problem