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Hello. I am building a basic link checker at work using cURL. My application has a function called getHeaders() that returns an array of HTTP headers: function getHeaders($url) { if(function_exists('curl_init')) { // create a new cURL resource $ch = curl_init(); // set URL and other appropriate options $options = array( CURLOPT_URL => $url, CURLOPT_HEADER => true, CURLOPT_NOBODY => true, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => 1, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true ); curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); // grab URL and pass it to the browser curl_exec($ch); $headers = curl_getinfo($ch); // close cURL resource, and free up system resources curl_close($ch); } else { echo "<p>Error: <a href=\"http://uk.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php\">cURL<a/> is not installed on the web server. Unable to continue.</p>"; return false; } return $headers; } print_r(getHeaders('mail.google.com')); Which yields the following results: (In case you're wondering, I changed the 'url' key to stop the forum interpreting it as BB Code) I've tested it with several long links, and the function acknowledges redirects, all apart from mail.google.com it seems. For fun, I passed the same URL (mail.google.com) to the W3C link checker, which produced: Which is correct, as the address above is where I am redirected to when I enter mail.google.com into my browser. What cURL options would I need to use to make my function return 200 for mail.google.com? Why is it that the function above returns 404 status code as opposed to 302 status code? TIA

Hello, I am trying to redirect non-authenticated users to following url after login: http://xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xx.xx/dvd_process_script.php?response=accept&owner=3&dvdid=55&requester=9 But the URL above doesn't seem to be stored in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] upon requesting it. The general logic of my script is: <?php if(user is logged in) { // redirect to home page } else { // this block executes because ALL users logged out echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; exit(); // for test purposes } ?> Confusingly, the above code outputs '/index.php' which was not what I was expecting. How would I go about redirecting to the desired url above (including get parameters)? Thanks, Mike

Thanks AlexWD, that works like a charm. Interesting logic you've used there. Very useful function. Cheers, Mike

Good evening folks, I have a webapp that allows users to catalogue their DVD titles, and I would like to reformat all titles that start with the word "the". Specifically, if the 'title' string starts with the word "the", I want to chop "the" from the beginning of the string, prepend it with a comma and a space, and then glue it onto the end of the string: "The Matrix" (current) "Matrix, The" (desired) What is the easiest way to do this in PHP? Regards, Mike

filezilla works for me

Can any one recommend a decent flowchart generation tool for PHP? Thanks

With regards to "PHP and MySQL Web Development, 3rd Edition" by SAMS My friend at uni had this book, as did my previous employer, and I can see that a lot of folks in this thread recommend it. I ordered a copy over the weekend, and it should arrive today. My only concern is that the content may be outdated? Is this a valid concern, or is the material still relevant today?

There are several open source resource schedulers/booking systems available on sourceforge. Google is your friend

I'm about to start my first PHP/MySQL contract @ £20/hour for 3 months I'm certainly no expert in these languages, but I believe I can implement what they are looking for using open source libraries, helper classes and so forth. Either that, or I'm screwed, lol.

I'm a 27 year old male, and I have been learning PHP/MySQL on and off since the beginning of 2004. I completed my first PHP/MySQL project in the second semester at university. I studied B.Sc Internet Technology, and spent the third year of my course working in Madrid for industrial experience. I graduated in 2007 with full honours, and started working as a PHP developer for a local web design company. I am now working as a PHP/MySQL contracter through an agency

I learned the theory behind object-oriented programming at uni (Java), and scored fairly well. But knowing is one thing - doing is another! I definately want to learn OO-PHP though, but not until I reasonable comfortable with procedural PHP programming.

Templates Yes, I realise that. Coming to think of it, I do use the lamp stack from the ubuntu repos. But I use XAMPP on CentOS because I don't like the way the Apache webroot is mapped to my home directory. Of course, I could modify the configuration, but it's easier for me to use XAMPP.

notepad++ in Windows and Kate in Linux

For development purposes I prefer using XAMPP for Linux with Ubuntu, but there are times when I need to do something on Windows (in Dreamweaver), in which case I use XAMPP for Windows