Gmail now support multiple file uploading feature. It seems to be good and better user interface to display the upload status .Nice one ..it need to be flash player installed on your system
This is a nice and simple substitute to get_file_contents() using curl, it returns FALSE if $contents is empty.
<?php
function curl_get_file_contents($URL)
{
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
$contents = curl_exec($c);
curl_close($c);
if ($contents) return $contents;
else return FALSE;
}
?>
Then another question
How to enable cURL in your server ?
To enable curl library we need to modify the php.ini file.
1) Locate the following files:
apache\bin\php.ini
php\php.ini
php\php4\php.ini or php\php5\php.ini
2) Uncomment the following line on your php.ini file by removing the semicolon.
;extension=php_curl.dll
3) Restart your apache server.
4) Check your phpinfo if curl was properly enabled.
Otherwise you can dynamically enable the library by calling dl(); function. But it is deprecated by new version of PHP