What could be causing a PHP script to intermittently fail in displaying images and data from an external source?

The issue could be caused by network connectivity problems or slow response times from the external source. To solve this issue, you can implement error handling in your PHP script to retry fetching the images and data if the initial request fails. 

<?php
$url = 'https://example.com/data.json';

$attempts = 3;
for ($i = 0; $i < $attempts; $i++) {
    $data = file_get_contents($url);
    if ($data !== false) {
        break;
    }
}

if ($data !== false) {
    $jsonData = json_decode($data, true);
    // Display images and data from the external source
    foreach ($jsonData['images'] as $image) {
        echo '<img src="' . $image['url'] . '" alt="' . $image['alt'] . '">';
    }
} else {
    echo 'Failed to fetch data from the external source after ' . $attempts . ' attempts.';
}
?>

Keywords

PHP script images data external source

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