Re: [PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink

2010-11-24 Thread Adam Richardson

 foreach ($_POST as $key=$post) {
$post=str_replace( , +, $post);
$url.=$key.=.$post.;
}


Hi Bob,

One thing I see is that you're appending values on to the end of a url that
already has 2 values, so you should place the  at the beginning of your
line instead of at the end.  Value 2 is being merged with whatever value is
coming after it in your example.  So, try something like:

$url .=  . $key. = .$post;

Also, I'd suggest url encoding the post value rather than merely hunting
down spaces and swapping them out with +.

Hope this helps,

Adam

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Re: [PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink

2010-11-24 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Wednesday 24 November 2010,
Bob Keightley bob.keight...@virgin.net wrote:

 I already have a curl script that gets the web page, but it doesn't pass
 the parameters

  Hello Bob,

 
 Being new to PHP I haven't the first idea how to modify it so that it
 does.
 
 Script is as follows:
 
 $url = http://www.xx.com/query.asp?param1=val1param2=val2;;
 
 foreach ($_POST as $key=$post) {
   $post=str_replace( , +, $post);
   $url.=$key.=.$post.;
   }


  Instead of concatenating strings, I suggest to use the http_build_query()
function:

?php
$data = array('param1' = 'val1',
  'param2' = 'val2',
  'param3' = 'val3');
$query = http_build_query($data);
echo Query: {$query}\n;
 ?

  So, to create a query string based on your $_POST request parameters,
you just need to use the function as follows:

?php
$query = http_build_query($_POST);
echo Query: {$query}\n;
 ?

  This will create the proper query string to be used on your URL.

 
 $ch = curl_init($url);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
 $data = curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch);
 
 $data=str_replace('.asp', '.php', $data);
 echo $data;
 
 This returns the web page, but ignores val1 and val2 which are necessary
 to execute the query.


Best regards,
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Re: [PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink

2010-11-24 Thread Bob Keightley
Guess I've not explained this very well.

The external page I am fetching using another curl script has asp query 
hyperlinks in it. I do not know the variable names in each query or the 
values they have.

All I want to do is replace the external url referenced in those links with 
a url which is on my site (so that I can change style sheet, image locations 
etc.) but the parameters to the original asp query link have to be captured 
and passed to my php script for it to return data.  I know there must be a 
way of doing this as there's a site which is referencing the same third 
party site and doing the same thing, and no, they won't tell me how! 



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RE: [PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink

2010-11-24 Thread Tommy Pham
 -Original Message-
 From: Bob Keightley [mailto:bob.keight...@virgin.net]
 Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:25 AM
 To: php-general@lists.php.net
 Subject: Re: [PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink
 
 Guess I've not explained this very well.
 
 The external page I am fetching using another curl script has asp query
 hyperlinks in it. I do not know the variable names in each query or the
 values they have.
 
 All I want to do is replace the external url referenced in those links
with a
 url which is on my site (so that I can change style sheet, image locations
 etc.) but the parameters to the original asp query link have to be
captured
 and passed to my php script for it to return data.  I know there must be a
 way of doing this as there's a site which is referencing the same third
party
 site and doing the same thing, and no, they won't tell me how!
 

Bob,

There's several issues with this.

1) They're providing the info which you're trying to pass it as your own and
most likely that they won't get any positive results, as some company do
analysis on visits to improve the marketing strategy, customer service,
customer relations, etc.  You're just skewing their data analysis and
prevent them from becoming successful.  Which may force them to go out of
business then you'll lose your source of information.
2) Waste of bandwidth.  3rd party  you  user instead of just you  user.
3) I'm don't like that fact that some people take others work and try to
pass it as their own.  I think many folks on this list feels the same way.
So why not just quote them and give them the credit they deserve.  That's
probably the reason why you're not able to find much info on how to do this
:)

Regards,
Tommy


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RE: [PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink

2010-11-24 Thread Bob Keightley

 Thanks to all for your interest so far but as I said, new to PHP. Changed
POST to GET and all now working fine!

 Tommy, the third party site is fully aware of what I am doing. We pay them
to use the data, as do lots of other companies in our industry. Supplying
data is what they do. We could not use the site at all without being given a
valid user name. Far from 'preventing them being successful' the more users
they have the more successful they become. We do not 'pass the work as our
own' they are credited on our site as suppliers of the content, so there
really is no issue there.


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[PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink

2010-11-23 Thread Bob Keightley
First use of Curl so probably a very simple problem - I have a script which 
loads a third party web page into my site.  That page contains links which 
have variable parameters i.e. www.blahblah.asp?param1=xxxparam2=yyy.

Any clues as to what I need to do to pass these parameters in a curl script 
appreciated. 



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RE: [PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink

2010-11-23 Thread admin
Depending on how the website is setup you can curl or soap parameters.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.soap.php




Richard L. Buskirk

-Original Message-
From: Bob Keightley [mailto:bob.keight...@virgin.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 9:12 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink

First use of Curl so probably a very simple problem - I have a script which 
loads a third party web page into my site.  That page contains links which 
have variable parameters i.e. www.blahblah.asp?param1=xxxparam2=yyy.

Any clues as to what I need to do to pass these parameters in a curl script 
appreciated. 



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RE: [PHP] curl and variable parameters in hyperlink

2010-11-23 Thread Bob Keightley

I already have a curl script that gets the web page, but it doesn't pass the
parameters

Being new to PHP I haven't the first idea how to modify it so that it does.

Script is as follows:

$url = http://www.xx.com/query.asp?param1=val1param2=val2;;

foreach ($_POST as $key=$post) {
$post=str_replace( , +, $post);
$url.=$key.=.$post.;
}

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$data=str_replace('.asp', '.php', $data);
echo $data;

This returns the web page, but ignores val1 and val2 which are necessary to
execute the query.



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