using php sockets

[pouncer]

Hey guys

What I'm wanting to do is connect to http://onelook.com on port 80 and submit a word to lookup.

 

I'm not sure how I go about setting the socket up, and what to send to the socket etc.

 

Any ideas guys?

[pouncer]

ok guys, I had a go at this but no luck!

 

<?php

$host = "www.onelook.com";

$fp = fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errdesc) or die("Connection to $host failed");



$request = "GET /w=cat&ls=a HTTP/1.0\r\n";

$request .= "Host: $host\r\n";

$request .=  "Accept-Language: en-us\r\n";

   $request .=  "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflatez\r\n";

$request .= "Accept: */*\r\n\r\n";



fputs($fp, $request);



while(!feof($fp)){

  $page[] = fgets($fp, 1024);

}



fclose($fp);

echo "The server returned ".(count($page)). " Lines";



for($i=0; $i<count($page); $i++){

  echo $page[$i];

}

?>

 

 

 

Try to conect for e.g: http://www.onelook.com/?w=cat&ls=a

 

 

 

It just keeps giving me a 302 error. What I'm actually looking to do is to check on the right of the page where it says

 

 

 

Quick definitions (cat)

 

 

 

 

 

noun: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats

 

 

 

It it finds that the word is a noun and or an adjective, I just want it to return/halt and echo "Word is a noun" etc

 

 

 

can anyone help?

 

[fert]

why don't you use curl?

[pouncer]

i don't think my host has it!

 

anyone know whats wrong with my code?