Kobi Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Hi, I want to generate an input url from a user to check website download time. can someone explain how to pass the input to the $url function. Thanks. first file: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <html> <head> <title>check website</title> </head> <body> <div id="main"> <form action="getload.php" method="post"> <p>Website name: <input type="text" name="website_name" value="" /> </p> <input type="submit" value="check website" /> </form> </div> </body> </html> second file: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <?php error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT); // Initialize cURL with given url $url = ('http://some-web-page.com'); $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60); set_time_limit(65); $execute = curl_exec($ch); $info = curl_getinfo($ch); // Time spent downloading, I think $time = $info['total_time'] - $info['namelookup_time'] - $info['connect_time'] - $info['pretransfer_time'] - $info['starttransfer_time'] - $info['redirect_time']; // Echo friendly messages header('Content-Type: text/plain'); printf("Downloaded %d bytes in %0.4f seconds.\n", $info['size_download'], $time); printf("Which is %0.4f mbps\n", $info['size_download'] * 8 / $time / 1024 / 1024); printf("CURL said %0.4f mbps\n", $info['speed_download'] * 8 / 1024 / 1024); echo "\n\ncurl_getinfo() said:\n", str_repeat('-', 31 + strlen($url)), "\n"; foreach ($info as $label => $value) { printf("%-30s %s\n", $label, $value); } ?> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283469-url-input-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyber_alchemist Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 why don't you use $_POST ? $url = $_POST['website_name']; where the second file name is getload.php. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283469-url-input-help/#findComment-1456350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobi Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share Posted October 31, 2013 just did that, exactly what I wanted Thanks. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/283469-url-input-help/#findComment-1456351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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