[HELP] Reading stuff with a socket

[artsrun]

Hello

 

I really don't know much about php, just some. Well i am trying to fetch links from a website that has them protected by both javascript and php. I did little research and found i can use a socket to read it (I don't know much about sockets). Here is a example of how their code looks like.

 

<a class="atest" target="_blank" href="#" onclick="popup0x(180358);this.style.color='#AE3939';this.style.textDecoration='line-through';return false">
<b>The link</b></a>

 

I want to have my php parser to go to the site and use a socket to call the javascript function on their site and get the url that opens. How can i do this?

 

Thank you

[corbin]

No offense, but you obviously don't know anything about sockets if you want a socket to call a javascript function x.x.

 

 

You will need to parse the javascript using some other language.  Or, if your computer has a JS parser (if you're on the internet, it does), you could always try to use that, but you would have to coax the hell out of it.

[artsrun]

No offense, but you obviously don't know anything about sockets if you want a socket to call a javascript function x.x.

 

 

You will need to parse the javascript using some other language.  Or, if your computer has a JS parser (if you're on the internet, it does), you could always try to use that, but you would have to coax the hell out of it.

 

 

I talked to some guy who is guru in most languages and he said it can be done with php using a socket to read stream it or something like that. Then using php to parse the info.

[artsrun]

bump?

[btherl]

I'm guessing that he's suggesting you fetch the page using php and parse it with php.  There's a few ways to fetch the page, depending on how much control you need.  If it's just a simple request, you can use file_get_contents("http://www.blah.com/blah.html?arg=foo");

 

If it's a post, you probably need to use curl (you can google that).

 

As for the parsing, that depends on what the javascript looks like.

[artsrun]

I'm guessing that he's suggesting you fetch the page using php and parse it with php.  There's a few ways to fetch the page, depending on how much control you need.  If it's just a simple request, you can use file_get_contents("http://www.blah.com/blah.html?arg=foo");

 

If it's a post, you probably need to use curl (you can google that).

 

As for the parsing, that depends on what the javascript looks like.

 

For parsing i put a small curl script that can get the stuff i just need to find a way to call the function on their site, for example

onclick="popup0x(180358)

and get the url that opens.

 

Also thank you for helping

[artsrun]

bump

[btherl]

popup0x() will either be on the page itself, or in another page included from that page (probably in the head section at the top).

[artsrun]

huh?

[btherl]

popup0x() is a javascript function.  It must be defined somewhere.  Either it is defined on the same page, or on a page included by that page.  You need to find where it's defined so you can see what it does.

 

[artsrun]

Its defined on a dif page and uses php as well. So even if i download entire site in html it wont work.

[btherl]

Buy "uses php" do you mean it makes an ajax call back to a php script?  popup0x() itself is a javascript function, so you should be able to download that one even if it's in another page.  Whether you can get anything useful from the definition is another question..