At work, I was given a file with which to connect to the proxy which I can do from there but I have no idea how to do it from home. I tried going "under the hood" and setting up a proxy with a random www address but that didn't work, probably since I have no idea of what a proxy is. Also, I wasn't able to find any good tutorials on this online that explain in language a beginner could understand.
I'm on windows by the way, and here's the code from that file
<?php
function get_file($uri) {
// get file via proxy
$context = stream_context_create(
array('http'=>
array('proxy'=>'www.someurl.com',
'header'=>'Cache-Control: no-cache'
)
));
$contents = file_get_contents($uri,false,$context);
return $contents;
};
?>