get_file_contents porting to Curl - Need help

[Mad_Coder]

I've been using this script to grab daily devotionals from our affilate for years, then our host disabled get_file_contents, I began porting to curl and it refuses to work and I can not figure out why? Be it... I'm not the best php developer (C# dev by trade) so I'm seeking the help from you pro's.

 

// original get_file_file code

 

<?php
// Let's get the content
$url = "http://www.streamingfaith.com/prayer/devotionals";
$start_text2 = '<h1 class="dd-title">';
$end_text2 = '</em>';
$source2 = file_get_contents($url);
$start_pos2 = strpos($source2, $start_text2) + strlen($start_text2);
$end_pos2 = strpos($source2, $end_text2) - $start_pos2;
$content = substr($source2, $start_pos2, $end_pos2);

// let's strip the content
$text = $content;
//echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";
// Let's define Allowed tags and show it all
echo strip_tags($text, '<p></p><br/><strong><em>');

?>

 

 

// Now here's my attempt to curl - it refuses to strip the tags?

 

<?php
$ch = curl_init("http://www.streamingfaith.com/prayer/devotionals");
$source2 = curl_exec($ch);

$start_text2 = '<h1 class="dd-title">';
$end_text2 = '</em>';

$start_pos2 = strpos($source2, $start_text2) + strlen($start_text2);
$end_pos2 = strpos($source2, $end_text2) - $start_pos2;
$content = substr($source2, $start_pos2, $end_pos2);

// let's strip the content
$text = $content;

//echo 
strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";
// Let's define Allowed tags and show it all
echo strip_tags($text, '<p></p><br/><strong><em>');

?>

 

Please help.

[xyph]

So you're getting the contents of the page fine?

[Mad_Coder]

Yes, the page is returned, however it's not stripping the tags at all. And I can't figure out why.

[xyph]

Echo the raw contents, view the source of that page, post it here.

[Mad_Coder]

I can't. It exceeds the maximum length here and on phpaste.com.

 

Here it is on my domain though:  http://www.thestreamingbible.com/tmp/1.php

 

It will no longer strip the output

[xyph]

What does your script echo? Anything?

 

What content are you trying to extract from that site?

[Mad_Coder]

If you look above and my curl attempt, I'm trying get the page's content and strip the text only between these tags:

 

$start_text2 = '<h1 class="dd-title">';  // get content starting after this tag

$end_text2 = '</em>'; // and ending with this tag

 

 

[Mad_Coder]

I solved the problem. Here's my solution:

 

<?php
// Let's get the content
$url = "http://www.streamingfaith.com/prayer/devotionals";
$ch = curl_init($url);
$source2 = curl_exec($url);

$start_text2 = '<h1 class="dd-title">';
$end_text2 = 'Scripture Of The Day:';
$source2 = file_get_contents($url);
$start_pos2 = strpos($source2, $start_text2) + strlen($start_text2);
$end_pos2 = strpos($source2, $end_text2) - $start_pos2;
$content = substr($source2, $start_pos2, $end_pos2);

// let's strip the content
$text = $content;
//echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";
// Let's define Allowed tags and show it all
echo strip_tags($text, '<p></p><br/><strong><em>');

?>

THANKS FOR YOU HELP.

[Pikachu2000]

The curl_exec() function in that is erroring out, and doing nothing, so if file_get_contents() is disabled, how can that possibly work?

 

I'm not a cURL expert, but I think all you needed to do was add the curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); option to the code in the OP, since without it all curl_exec() returns is a 0/1 response.

 

$ch = curl_init("http://www.streamingfaith.com/prayer/devotionals");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$source2 = curl_exec($ch);

[Mad_Coder]

I know. I totally jumped the gun and it worked locally because get_file_contents is enabled, but when I uploaded it It errored out because I forgot to comment out that function.  I will test your code and report back.

[Mad_Coder]

This doesn't work and I'm at a total loss. I can not for the life of me understand why.

 

<?php
// Let's get the content
$ch = curl_init("http://www.streamingfaith.com/prayer/devotionals");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$source2 = curl_exec($ch);

$start_text2 = '<h1 class="dd-title">';
$end_text2 = 'Scripture Of The Day:';
$start_pos2 = strpos($source2, $start_text2) + strlen($start_text2);
$end_pos2 = strpos($source2, $end_text2) - $start_pos2;
$content = substr($source2, $start_pos2, $end_pos2);

// let's strip the content
$text = $content;
//echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";
// Let's define Allowed tags and show it all
echo strip_tags($text, '<p></p><br/><strong><em>');

?>

 

However... I can retrieve the the page's content but it refuses to strip it

 

<?php
// Let's get the content
$ch = curl_init("http://www.streamingfaith.com/prayer/devotionals");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$source2 = curl_exec($ch);
echo $source2;  // debug out only

/*
$start_text2 = '<h1 class="dd-title">';
$end_text2 = 'Scripture Of The Day:';

$start_pos2 = strpos($source2, $start_text2) + strlen($start_text2);
$end_pos2 = strpos($source2, $end_text2) - $start_pos2;
$content = substr($source2, $start_pos2, $end_pos2);

// let's strip the content
$text = $content;
//echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";
// Let's define Allowed tags and show it all
echo strip_tags($text, '<p></p><br/><strong><em>');
*/
?>

 

[Pikachu2000]

That's odd. When I paste your code locally, it seems to work fine.

[Mad_Coder]

Does it strip the devotional text properly? or just return the entire page?

[Mad_Coder]

: FINALLY !!!  :

- WORKS!

 

<?php
// Let's get the content
$ch = curl_init("http://www.streamingfaith.com/prayer/devotionals");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$source2 = curl_exec($ch);
//echo $source2;


$start_text2 = '<h1 class="dd-title">';
$end_text2 = 'Scripture Of The Day:';

$start_pos2 = strpos($source2, $start_text2) + strlen($start_text2);
$end_pos2 = strpos($source2, $end_text2) - $start_pos2;
$content = substr($source2, $start_pos2, $end_pos2);

// let's strip the content
$text = $content;
//echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";
// Let's define Allowed tags and show it all
echo strip_tags($text, '<p></p><br/><strong><em>');

?>

 

 

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP - AGIAN