Greetings,
I am very new to all of this, but if you fine folks would tolerate a “newbie,”
I would be most appreciative.
To be very brief, I wrote my very first cURL script within a php file and
uploaded it to my website:
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.cnn.com");
curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
?>
IT WORKS PERFECTLY! (sorry to shout, but I am ecstatic)
However, when I modify the name of the url (so that a grapic file with a png
extension is “pointed to”):
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "
http://water.weather.gov/resources/hydrographs/lodn4_hg.png");
curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
?>
…The picture does not show up (as a picture) but as gibberish:
‰PNG IHDRXÑï7c¿PLTEßßÿ
-ŸŸÛÿÿÿg_·Â¿âI?©àßð¤ŸÔ+›†Æ²ÌäØåñØðú²ãöÿrrÜ[fíglÿÆrܯfí»lÿÿrÜèfíólíøpÜònÝÝÝÃÃßSS_oo77?‹‹Ÿ§§¿’’§ªªÃ007HHSaao}}yy‹@@ÿ\hüy‘ú•ºøNTý£Î÷j}ûµµåggöÉÉáSVþÏÏÿ‡¥ùSSú¢¢éççÿWWÿooÿ‡‡ÿflýŸŸÿ··ÿff¨Æäy8Š
…
If I may just ask someone to tell me what I am doing incorrectly (nothing else
but that), I would be thrilled.
Thanks!
Respectfully,
Dr. Robert Ingoglia
Professor - Department of History
Felician College
262 South Main Street
Lodi, NJ 07644
office: 201-559-6135 (voice mail available)
web page: http://faculty.felician.edu/ingogliar
Member of CWOP (Citizen Weather Observer Program)
Station: DW8219 at http://heightsweather.info
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that
there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to
read one."
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, p. vii
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