Need Help with Yahoo Apis

Diptanjan22 Aug 2009 2:49 AM
Hi,

I am quite new to Webservices and API. I am trying to test some of the Yahoo API functionality by myself.

Whenever I use file_get_contents($url) it's getting timed out and receiving an error message :

Error I am receiving is something like the below given :
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file_get_contents(http://api.shopping.yahoo.com/ShoppingService/V2/productSearch?query=%20linksys%20&appid=XXXXX&results=1&start=2)
[function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. in [PATH] on line 14

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in [PATH] on line 14


But when I am trying to run the $url directly through the browser I am fetching the proper XML

Can anyone just throuw some light why this is happening? Where am I making the mistake?

TIA.

Regards

Dips
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Jonathan LeBlanc26 Aug 2009 2:00 PM
Give this a shot - this code works well for me to capture the data:

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$prod_data = file_get_contents("http://api.shopping.yahoo.com/ShoppingService/V2/productSearch?query=%20linksys%20&appid=XXXXX&results=1&start=2");
var_dump(simplexml_load_string($prod_data));


Jonathan LeBlanc
Senior Software Engineer
Yahoo! Developer Network
Twitter: jcleblanc
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