bw_get_tide_info() - Gets tide information from the $tide_url

Description

Gets tide information from the $tide_url

Note: There is limited error checking here. It can fail for many reasons but it will produce messages when it happens. These are suppressed by the @ but can be logged by error handlers The most likely causes of failure are:

$tide_url is not a valid RSS feed – see bw_tideurl_namify()
server is not connected to the internet
https://www.tidetimes.org.uk is not responding
https://www.tidetimes.co.uk is not responding

Usage

$string = bw_get_tide_info( $tide_url );

Parameters

$tide_url: ( string ) required – the RSS feed for the desired location

Returns

string

Source

File name: uk-tides/shortcodes/uk-tides.php
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function bw_get_tide_info( $tide_url ) {
  //$request_url = urlencode( $tide_url );
  $request_url = $tide_url;
  $response = @file_get_contents( $request_url, false );
  bw_trace2( $response, "response" );
  if ( false === $response ){
    $response_xml = null;
  } else {
  $response_xml = simplexml_load_string( $response );
  }
  //$response_xml = simplexml_load_file( $request_url );
  bw_trace2( (string) $response_xml, "response_xml", true, BW_TRACE_DEBUG );
  return $response_xml;
}