A man walks along the bank of a frozen river. Snow is falling. There is already a thick carpet of flakes crunching beneath his feet with every step. The fall is heavy and the sky is white. Reaching the bridge he begins to cross the wide, high structure keeping one eye on the usually-flowing, unusually still body sitting motionless tens of feet beneath. ‘I wonder,’ he thinks ‘how can I give unique IDs to my Drupal menu items.’ continue reading
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Setting a timeout on file_get_contents for URLs
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Just a quick post since this doesn’t seem to be very well covered, but could be useful to someone. PHP’s file_get_contents function is an easy way to load the contents of a file or URL into a variable. But what about timeouts?
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I’ve blogged in the past about building my own PHP framework. I’ve found little time to further this goal in recent months and so I started looking around for a good foundation to work from. I’ve used Code Igniter before, but it’s lesser known, PHP5-only, strict OOP fork, Kohana seems a better fit with my tastes.