Re: [Apb-development] Re: Apb caching patches...

[Darron F. <da...@fr...>]

> Your call - we could leave the current code in and if curl isn't
available,
> it just uses the regular fopen wrappers to grab the files - that shouldn't
> be too hard.

I just did a quick test and if we do this - we can have our cake and eat it
too:

function getFile($url, $headers=0) {
 // If cURL exists - use these.
 if (function_exists(curl_init)){
   $ch = curl_init();
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $headers);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, $headers);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.12;
Mac_PowerPC)');
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, '');
   $result = curl_exec ($ch);
   curl_close ($ch);
 } else {
  // If cURL doesn't exist, use the fopen wrappers.
 }

That way we can use cURL which is:

1. More robust.
2. Faster.
3. Just plain better.

And yet still provide for older installs without cURL.

Thoughts?