fetching data from remote site
by prettyscripts on 2008-05-13 21:29:17
using cURL functions:
PHP:
$c = curl_init(); | |
curl_setopt_array($c, $opts); | |
$data = curl_exec($c); | |
$info = curl_getinfo($c); | |
$error = curl_error($c); | |
curl_close($c); |
- line 2: see next section on $opt
- line 3: data will be returned if CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER set to true
- line 4: header info, including http status, size etc in array format
setting options
typically the param $opt for curl_setopt_array (php V5+). for more options, read this.
PHP:
$opts = array( | |
CURLOPT_URL => $url, | |
CURLOPT_HTTPGET => true, | |
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, | |
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], | |
); |
curl info
example of data returned from curl_getinfo():
Code:
Array | |
( | |
[url] => http://.... | |
[content_type] => application/xml | |
[http_code] => 302 | |
[header_size] => 212 | |
[request_size] => 197 | |
[filetime] => -1 | |
[ssl_verify_result] => 0 | |
[redirect_count] => 0 | |
[total_time] => 0.373705 | |
[namelookup_time] => 0.054075 | |
[connect_time] => 0.212869 | |
[pretransfer_time] => 0.212979 | |
[size_upload] => 0 | |
[size_download] => 0 | |
[speed_download] => 0 | |
[speed_upload] => 0 | |
[download_content_length] => 0 | |
[upload_content_length] => 0 | |
[starttransfer_time] => 0.373589 | |
[redirect_time] => 0 | |
} |
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