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Hello, and firstly, thanks for the amazingly great web services.

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm trying to use the data returned from your elevation finder.

The problem I have is that I'm using PHP which for some reason isn't getting just a number but some kind of resource id.

I've got something like this:

$val = fopen("http://ws.geonames.org/gtopo30?lat=47.01&lng=10.2", "r");

If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong. Please tell me. I'm going a bit mad not being able to work it out.

Thanks!

you must fread() what you fopen()

Or: Code:

$data =  file_get_contents($url, false);

And if you have to deal with Timeouts, Curl is an option:
Code:

$handle = curl_init();
 curl_setopt ($handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 curl_setopt ($handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
 curl_setopt ($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 $data= curl_exec($handle);
 curl_close($handle);