[SOLVED] Opening and executing

[PHPNewbie55]

Is there a way to open a file and execute the contents of that file just like a person would if they opened the file in a browser?

I have looked all through this page:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetss.php

 

And I have tried to find a way to do this but haven't had any results....

 

Any suggestions??

[jackpf]

Well, if you simply want to display file contents, you can use something like file_get_contents() or fopen()

 

However, if you actually want to execute the file, you can use something like exec() or system()

 

Hope this helps.

[PHPNewbie55]

Thanks but those won't work...

 

What I am looking to do is spider a bunch of links on a page just as if a person clicked on them..  in order to run the queries on the individual pages..

If it was a matter of a few links I would just click on them.. but there are 1000's of links I need to "click on"...

[pkSML]

You can use file_get_contents to grab the HTML source and then run it through a parsing function to scape links. You won't be able to run this indefinitely-running script through your browser unless you had a customized ajax interface (think $100's). You'll need to run this on the command line.

[PHPNewbie55]

How would I do it through the command line...??

[pkSML]

Run the command line (Start --> Run --> cmd.exe)

 

navigate to the directory with the script in it.

find the location of your php.exe.

 

type in something like this: c:\php5\php.exe -f spider.php

[PHPNewbie55]

There has got to be a way to do this without going through the command line...

 

When a spider crawls my site for example and hits a page with search.php?q=search term

it executes the query using the ?q=search term as a parameter...  so there has got to be a way to "crawl" links and execute the php code on the page..

 

like a bot... feed it a bunch of urls and let it go until the end...

I am just looking for the correct function to use to open a link

 

There has got to be some way to do it...  ???

 

 

 

 

[samshel]

include("http://www.domain.com/file.php?search=q1");
include("http://www.domain.com/file.php?search=q2");
include("http://www.domain.com/file.php?search=q3");

 

when u include a URL, PHP actually gives a hit to that URL as if a user has clicked on it and then includes the HTML output.. check if this is what u need.

 

It may require some php.ini configurations to allow to read a URL.

[PHPNewbie55]

That sounds like it might just work but my server won't allow any variables in the urls like php?search=q1

 

It wouldn't be that bad either each page is less that 1kb so it wouldn't take too long....

What I need to do is run about 1000 individual queries on a search page..  but the search page does a little more than search..

it updates the results in the table... it is hard to explain..

 

I could probably reset the ini with something like this IF..  I knew what to set it to... LOL  I don't mess with my PHP.ini much

ini_set ("????", "????");

 

ANY SUGGESTIONS...?

[corbin]

file_get_contents would be better than include for that.

 

Actually, fsockopen could be the fastest since you could use keep-alive connections that way.

[PHPNewbie55]

OK I tried fsockopen and got this....

 

 

(Unable to find the socket transport "http" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)

 

 

So how would I enable fsockopen...??

 

Like I said I don;t mess with my PHP.ini much...  if ever..

[corbin]

It looks like your host has remote requests of all kinds disabled x.x.

 

 

You don't technically need to use http:// though.  Actually, to get the advantage of keep-alive connections, you can't do that.

 

You would just use the host name and port, then you would write HTTP headers to the socket then read back the response.