Open URL with PHP, no output file needed

[markrudling]

Hi guys

 

^<?php

^sleep(00);

^{$handle = fopen("http://www.myurl.com/?bla=bla=bla" , "r");}

^{fclose($handle);}

 

^?>

 

How do i prevent this from outputing to a file on my server. I only need the url to be accessed to add a new row of data to my DB.

 

Any Ideas?

Regards

Mark

[JKG]

is the file local?

[Tonic-_-]

If you mean you're trying to open a URL to get data from a page and add it to your database I could suggest cURL. I like it more then fopen, etc.

[PaulRyan]

You could possibly use header()

 

Send the current page to the URL that adds the record, then use header() again to go back to the file you sent the data from? or possibly to a different file?

 

Regards, PaulRyan.

[markrudling]

The URL is local to the server.

 

All I need to do is trigger the URL. Everything else is done in the URL that is being triggered.

 

I dont need the output from any of the files.

 

Thanks

Mark

[Tonic-_-]

Oh, so you just need to execute the page. Do not want output? As i said cURL is useful for this.. But there are much easier ways.

[markrudling]

The easyer the better Im sure i use to have this working with a simple one or two lines.

 

Regards

Mark

[JKG]

might be wrong, but can you use exec() for this? or does that output...

[markrudling]

PS, im happy to have one output file that gets overwriten every time, i just dont want thousands of files on the root of my server. (current setup)

[markrudling]

Anyone?

[JKG]

is this a stupid suggestion:

place in an iframe at the bottom of page, with styling to display:none

 

that way all the html would be processed the user would see the page, and the script, would be out of site out of mind...

[markrudling]

Perhaps I should have mentioned earlyer.

 

The page is not accessed by humans, only by a CRON job that is run every min.

 

The page runs a sql query that captures data from a ever changing text file.

 

Every time the CRON job fires, the page is accessed and the DB is populated with a new row. However, as it stands, a file is also created on the root. I have 6 files that run every min, so 8640 files are being written to my root every day..

 

I need the files to either be overwriten or not writen at all.

 

Thanks

Mark

[JKG]

what file does this output?

fopen wouldnt output a file to say a file has been opened...

[markrudling]

There are 6 files, each with a acending 10second delay, named import00.php, import10.php etc etc

 

in the root of my hosting directory, files with the same name are created with an extra .1 .2 etc added as the suffex.

 

If i run the url that is being called by the import00.php file, no output file is created. It is being caused when the cron job runs the import00.php file.

 

mmmm

 

Now looking at it, im not sure if the output file is being created by the cron job or the php file...

[markrudling]

OK OK,

 

I am the weakest link...

 

I was using webget in my cron job insted of curl....

 

Updated cron jobs, no more files..

 

Sorry to waist your time and thank you everyone for the help