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General use of GTOPO30

Anonymous — GMT

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!

Re:General use of GTOPO30

Anonymous — GMT

you must fread() what you fopen()

Re:General use of GTOPO30

Anonymous — GMT

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);