remote file data

okay i know i'm just being picky here, i want to access information (ie. Time Last Modified) for images on other servers. Zoombie has helped me with this in creating a function using "fsockopen" but i would like to think there is a simpler way to go about it.. isn't there?

If you're host supports curl, you can use that. Just for a test, type this from a command line:

curl -D file.txt codewalkers.com/images/logo.gif

then file.txt should contain the info you want....I can work on making this into a script a little more later...

i have no idea what curl is, i was hoping to just use standard PHP..

CURL is something that is becoming rather standard in PHP installations nowadays. Try that command I gave, that will atleast show if curl is installed on your host. If it is, then check a phpinfo(); page and see if curl was compiled in. If both of the above are true, then I can write you up a PHP script to take care of what you want.....

my host isn't all that great, they're running PHP3 and i can't run a command line like that cause i upload everything via FTP.. i highly doubt that they have CURL cause they don't have any extensions for PHP but i'll let you know when i find out.

Ughh..php3...no extensions. No fun ...if you're paying for that, I can recommend some nice cheap hosts that will do you better than that

there's no other way other than "fsockopen" then? for php3 anyway?

i know of other hosts but i'm not really paying for anything.. maybe i should start

i'm just thinking, with "fread" and "iptcparse" the information has GOT to be in there somewhere cause just like the image size.. i will not sleep until i figure this out. or.. i'll just force myself to use the "fsockopen" function, which i will then have to create yet another function to split my uri's from the db for use in the "fsockopen", which will end up being a really really long bit of code just to get one little timestamp it just isn't digesting right with me...

i have a dream! is that how it goes?