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I have been using the following code to get html content of a webpage

$url = "http://mysmallwebpage.com/";
$html = file_get_contents($url);

However, file_get_contents can't open the URLs in the following form, but if I type them in the address bar of a web browser, these URLs open fine. 

www.etsy.com/listing/118415624/not-my-small-diary-17-true-high-school
blog.al.com/birmingham-news-commentary/2012/11/naked_art_gallery_gives_back_t.html
mysmallwebpage.com/

Can you please tell me what can I used to open above URLs in php?

Following doesn't work

$url = "www.etsy.com/listing/118415624/not-my-small-diary-17-true-high-school";
$html = file_get_contents($url);
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    Check allow_url_fopen in your php.ini Commented Apr 20, 2013 at 8:42

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Unless you do not prefix with http:// PHP won't know that you want a webpage and tries on the file-system:

$url = "http://www.etsy.com/listing/118415624/not-my-small-diary-17-true-high-school";
$html = file_get_contents($url);
if (FALSE === $html) {
    throw new Exception(sprintf('Failed to open HTTP URL "%s".', $url));
}

In development, enable all Errors, Warnings and Notices. PHP normally tells you about such problems then and where they appear.

Full example (Demo):

<?php
/**
 * PHP file_get_contents can't get html code
 * @link http://stackoverflow.com/q/16118385/367456
 */
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
$url = "http://www.etsy.com/listing/118415624/not-my-small-diary-17-true-high-school";
$html = file_get_contents($url);
if (FALSE === $html) {
    throw new Exception(sprintf('Failed to open HTTP URL "%s".', $url));
}

$xml = simplexml_import_dom(@DOMDocument::loadHTML($html), 'SimpleXMLIterator');
$tree = new RecursiveTreeIterator($xml);

foreach($tree as $element => $line) {
    printf("%s <%s>\n", $tree->getPrefix(), $element);
}

Output:

|- <head>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <title>
| |- <meta>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <meta>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <link>
| |- <script>
| |- <script>
| |- <script>
| |- <script>
| |- <script>
| |- <script>
| |- <link>
| |- <meta>
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Also the fact that The function returns the read data or FALSE on failure. They should also check for the return value being FALSE
Yes, the general rule to validate a function return value is crucial for error-checking with file_get_contents. Will highlight that, good point @HankyPankyㇱ!
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use http:// before "www.etsy.com/listing/118415624/not-my-small-diary-17-true-high-school"

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$url = "http://www.etsy.com/listing/118415624/not-my-small-diary-17-true-high-school"; $html = file_get_contents($url); use this url it is working.

you use http in url.

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try this it is working fine

$url = "http://www.etsy.com/listing/118415624/not-my-small-diary-17-true-high-school";
$html = file_get_contents($url);


echo "<pre>";
print_r($html);
exit;
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