If I use the following code
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;?php
$rss_url = "feed.xml";
$rss_feed = file_get_contents($rss_url);
echo $rss_feed
?&gt;</font id=code></pre id=code>

I can view the contents of the local feed.xml file, however if I use
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;?php
$rss_url = "news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml";
$rss_feed = file_get_contents($rss_url);
echo $rss_feed
?&gt;</font id=code></pre id=code>

I get the following error
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known. in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\php\read_file.php on line 11

Warning: file_get_contents(news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\php\read_file.php on line 11<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

With line 11 being<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>$rss_feed = file_get_contents($rss_url);</font id=code></pre id=code>

Does anybody know why this is?

Many thanks in advance

Do u have the connection stream for bbc.co.uk ?
Coz they probably have some include files, so if your opening this within your page it will never work. coz the link will be different.

I was testing the code on my pc (i.e. localhost/.....)
When I moved the code across to another server it worked fine.
Not sure why, but thanks

The code is correct, tested it here and worked.
It should be a configuration setting on your server, check if the allow_url_fopen option is set to "1".

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No its not. Mine was On but it still didn't work.