simplexml_load_file Options
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:16 am
Hello all,
Just wanted to thank any of you in advance if you could provide some routes to take on this..
I am using (more or less) the code found at http://code.google.com/support/bin/answ ... opic=11364
to interact with requests a user sends (they are just brought over by http post).
There is just one form field, and my script processes the input to geolocate an address.
Point 1) I check first if the address entered was geogached in my geocache, and if not, I attempt to take each term
of the address, and ask google (with a 3 second delay between each term to avoid throttling etc) if that particular term is valid.
Point 2) Thus I arrive at the largest concatenated string possible that is a
'valid' address by google. The reason i do this on a term basis, and
not on a full address basis, is that the user may enter a restaurant
name (which would return an error reaching out to the maps.google.com/
geo url as it's not a valid address). i think this might not be
important though but I felt i'd add it. So "applebees main street
anytown, NJ" i'd arrive at google telling me "main street anytown, NJ"
is valid.
The Problem:
At any rate, What I notice is about 45% of the time I get an error:
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! (in my eventvwr logs)
and then the xml doc cannot load the external entity (thus my function stops working because the simplexml_load_file failed).
If i try again, and again, (maybe 2-3 times) it'll work and i'll get
the address I wanted.
I understand the php.ini file contains the entry for allow_url_fopen,
however I turned this on (and if it was off, it would never work i
believe as opposed to partially)
one important thing I want to mention is that I was initially using
curl for this operation, and i was randomly getting the same problem
(where it wouldn't return me a result). It's weird, i've tried both CSV and XML format for google and randomly
it just fails. Any suggestions? I'm completely out of ideas and am so frustrated!
If i take (at any given point) the very same string and manually try in a browser, it works every time. I'm also logging the URL that is trying to be used and trying that manually as well and it works every time.
Obviously I understand I can check in with google about this and i'm in the process of doing so, however does anyone know anything about odd/esoteric server/php settings that could randomly cause my efforts to reach out to read information to fail?
Regards,
Mike
Just wanted to thank any of you in advance if you could provide some routes to take on this..
I am using (more or less) the code found at http://code.google.com/support/bin/answ ... opic=11364
to interact with requests a user sends (they are just brought over by http post).
There is just one form field, and my script processes the input to geolocate an address.
Point 1) I check first if the address entered was geogached in my geocache, and if not, I attempt to take each term
of the address, and ask google (with a 3 second delay between each term to avoid throttling etc) if that particular term is valid.
Point 2) Thus I arrive at the largest concatenated string possible that is a
'valid' address by google. The reason i do this on a term basis, and
not on a full address basis, is that the user may enter a restaurant
name (which would return an error reaching out to the maps.google.com/
geo url as it's not a valid address). i think this might not be
important though but I felt i'd add it. So "applebees main street
anytown, NJ" i'd arrive at google telling me "main street anytown, NJ"
is valid.
The Problem:
At any rate, What I notice is about 45% of the time I get an error:
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! (in my eventvwr logs)
and then the xml doc cannot load the external entity (thus my function stops working because the simplexml_load_file failed).
If i try again, and again, (maybe 2-3 times) it'll work and i'll get
the address I wanted.
I understand the php.ini file contains the entry for allow_url_fopen,
however I turned this on (and if it was off, it would never work i
believe as opposed to partially)
one important thing I want to mention is that I was initially using
curl for this operation, and i was randomly getting the same problem
(where it wouldn't return me a result). It's weird, i've tried both CSV and XML format for google and randomly
it just fails. Any suggestions? I'm completely out of ideas and am so frustrated!
If i take (at any given point) the very same string and manually try in a browser, it works every time. I'm also logging the URL that is trying to be used and trying that manually as well and it works every time.
Obviously I understand I can check in with google about this and i'm in the process of doing so, however does anyone know anything about odd/esoteric server/php settings that could randomly cause my efforts to reach out to read information to fail?
Regards,
Mike