Why does file_get_contents not work for me? In the test file code below, it seems that everyone's examples that I've searched for all have this function listed, but it never gets executed. Is this a problem with the web hosting service? Can someone test this code on their server just to see if the geocoding array output actually gets printed out as a string? Of course, I am trying to assign the output to a variable, but there is no output here in this test file....
<html>
<head>
<title>Test File</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<?
$adr = 'Sydney+NSW';
echo $adr;
$url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=$adr&sensor=false";
echo '<p>'.$url.'</p>';
echo file_get_contents($url);
print '<p>'.file_get_contents($url).'</p>';
$jsonData = file_get_contents($url);
echo $jsonData;
?>
</body>
</html>