AdSense for Mobile Woes

[yaashul]

Google Mobile ads for PHP based server side scripting have function

$google_ad_handle = @fopen(google_get_ad_url(), 'r');
if ($google_ad_handle) {
 while (!feof($google_ad_handle)) {
 echo fread($google_ad_handle, 8192);
 }
 fclose($google_ad_handle);
}

Now most of the hosting provider close(disable) php fopen function. There is a work around to achieve the same thing. Just replace the code with this

function curl_get_contents($url, $timeout=60) {
 $timeout = abs((int)$timeout);
 $curl = curl_init();
 $opts = array(
 CURLOPT_URL => $url,
 CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
 CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => $timeout
 );

 curl_setopt_array($curl, $opts);
 $result = curl_exec($curl);
 if($result === false){
 user_error(curl_error($curl));
 return false;
 }
 $response = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
 if($response != 200){
 user_error("Received HTTP response of $response.");
 }
 return $result;
}

$url= google_get_ad_url();
$contents = curl_get_contents($url);
echo $contents;

But My question is Does it break ADSENSE Policy?

I didn't write this code. I found it on a website.

[leadegroot]

Does it break Adsense Policy?

No, because Adsense TOS governs _what_ you serve, not _how_ you serve it.

But surely, you would use an include or require rather than an fopen or a curl?

[yaashul]

And how to do that?

[leadegroot]

PHP include function doco [php.net]
?

[yaashul]

I don't know anything about php at all

[leadegroot]

Well, best to get reading then. php.net is definitive and excellent :)

[yaashul]

But if I use include I wont be able. to set a timeout

[leadegroot]

fopen and curl are used to include files from other sites/hosts.
It would be inefficient and odd to have your own code on another host. Put it locally.
'include' doesnt need a timeout, it isn't subject to delays.