Open a URL server side with PHP

[prosper99]

Hello Everyone,

 

Looking for 2 methods to opening a non local url that is formed from a php script.

 

1st method is to open a URL on the local server where PHP is running,

2nd method is to open a URL on a remote PHP proxy server.

 

In both cases just need it to open and close.  Can PHP provide this functionality?

 

Thank You.

Rob.

 

[samtwilliams]

Hi Rob,

 

Have you looked at the cURLLib?

 

http://curl.haxx.se/

 

I am sure you can achieve your goal with this or maybe look at the fopen() functions.

 

Hope this helps

Sam

[prosper99]

Thank You, yes CURL works for me for opening URL's locally.  But can't seem to find any examples of CURL opening a URL on a remote PHP proxy, ie submit a url to the proxy and have it open it...

 

<?php

function get_data($url)

{

$ch = curl_init();

$timeout = 5;

$userAgent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)";

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

return $data;

}

$returned_content = get_data('http://anyphpproxy.com');

echo $returned_content;

?>