Many open source projects will have been through this already. Anything that talks to an external api over like http, such as an oauth library, will likely have code already that not only calls curl, but also falls back gracefully to other methods of getting a http response if curl isn't installed.
As you're building another GPL project, you can copy their code directly. On 7 June 2012 14:51, Bruce Clement <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, > > I need to call this from PHP code, I believe that wget is only available as > an external executable. Have I got this wrong? > > I'll check out file_get_contents(). I need to get some information out of > the headers (Particularly the HTTP status and Location: header) and a quick > read suggests that I can get those from $http_response_header after the > file_get_contents() call. > > Still interested in exploring cURL if it's reasonably widely available. > > Bruce > > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Paul Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Bruce, >> >> Third times a charm :) >> Do you need to POST data? If not could you use wget? (which from what I'm >> aware is much more widely available) >> >> Or even file_get_contents() which is now usually URL compatible (provided >> the server being referenced doesn't block requests). >> >> Regards, >> Paul Bennett >> MoveForward - Web Development for Design Companies >> http://www.moveforward.co.nz >> 06 308 9722 >> 027 255 8495 >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Bruce Clement <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> One of my side projects is resurrecting an ancient PHP directory script >>> (an old GPL 2 version of something that's later versions have been made >>> closed source by the original author). My revised version is publicly >>> available but not yet promoted. >>> >>> The original project checked URLs with its own logic using sockets and >>> file reads. Unfortunately it's either buggy or isn't very compatible with >>> modern PHP and I want to replace it rather than repair it. >>> >>> My preference is the cURL library but I just discovered that it isn't >>> available by default in Debian 6.0.5's Php stack (I've just switched my >>> debugging there from Wheezy because of the xdebug / php 5.4 incompatibility >>> issue). >>> >>> Yes I know it can be easily installed with Pecl or apt-get, but these >>> often aren't available to ordinary webmasters in shared hosting >>> environments. >>> >>> Before going too far down this path I'd like to know how much I'm >>> limiting my potential audience. >>> >>> Does anyone know how common cURL is in mainstream LAMP stacks, or know a >>> page giving this in a nice summary form? I know it's in Centos and missing >>> from Squeeze. >>> >>> Is there a better (more portable) option? (Must be GPL 2 compatible) >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Bruce >>> >>> PS I'm having a bad day today. This is my 3rd attempt to send this. Wrong >>> return address, wrong to address & hopefully 3rd time's lucky. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Bruce Clement >>> >>> Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ >>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement >>> Directory: http://www.searchme.co.nz/ >>> >>> "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good >>> appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail >>> Kalashnikov >>> >>> -- >>> NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >>> To post, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] > > > > > -- > Bruce Clement > > Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement > Directory: http://www.searchme.co.nz/ > > "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good > appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail > Kalashnikov > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- Kotahi tamaiti, Kotahi rorohiko iti: Aotearoa http://laptop.org.nz -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
