// turns link into comment

[phpil]

I'm pretty new to php, not so new to programming. My problem is really simple, and seems almost impossible to search for. When I reference an html link, the // renders everything after http: as a comment.

 

I'm trying to learn to write webbots. This is the first basic lesson of the book "Webbots, Spiders and Screenscrapers":

 

$target = "http://www.example.com/index.html";

$file_handle = fopen($target, "r");

 

while(!feof($file_handle))

    echo fgets($file_handle, 4096);

fclose($file_handle);

 

It fails on both my Linux machine and Mac. "Parse error: parse error in Command line code on line 1". In the editor (nano) I see that everything after http: in line 1 is highlighted as a comment.

 

This is straight from the book. What am I doing wrong?

Edited March 23, 2013 by phpil

[phpil]

So far I've tried escaping, cat'ing, putting it into single quotes. http:\/\/www.example.com doesn't work either.

[davidannis]

works for me as posted. Do you have <?php at the top and ?> at the end?

[haku]

The first line of the code you've shown is is fine, so you haven't shown us the actual line 1. Show us your actual code, and please wrap it in code tags, which you can do by using the <> button in the editor.

[phpil]

Sorry about the code tags. This is exactly what I have, edited with nano and run in a terminal on Mac and Linux.

 

<?php
$target = 'http://www.example.com/';
$file_handle = fopen($target, "r");

while(!feof($file_handle))
        echo fgets($file_handle, 4096);
fclose($file_handle);
?>

I just added the <?php ?> tags, but still the same error. "Parse error: parse error in Command line code on line 1". I've tried in Mac and Linux, ran it with "php -r" in the command terminal.

[phpil]

I'm not sure it has anything to do with the // in the html link. I really just need help.

[haku]

Line 1 is the opening pho tag. There is nothing wrong with it.

[davidannis]

What is the file extension? Should be .php

Can you post the entire command used to run the program. Are you sure that you are executing the correct file because if you added a line at the top

<?php

then the line at which the error occurs should move down one line?

Edited March 24, 2013 by davidannis

[kicken]

I've tried in Mac and Linux, ran it with "php -r" in the command terminal.

Don't use php -r to run a file, just do php yourfile.php. The -r flag is for passing code directly as a parameter which can get complicated quickly when you start involving quotes or multiple statements. Only use -r for quick one or two statement bits of code, eg:

php -r 'echo dechex(123456);'