ronan, thanks so much for the assist, it works like a champ! thanks green -----Original Message----- From: Ronan Chilvers [mailto:ronan@thelittledot.com] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:33 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: trying to capture url data to a stream, with atwist... Importance: High Hi Andy Try this one using fsockopen... function random_website() { $site = "random.yahoo.com"; $page = "/fast/ryl"; $open = fsockopen($site, 80, $errno, $errstr); if ($open) { fputs($open, "GET $page HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"); $data = ""; while (!feof($open)) { $data .= fgets($open,1000); } fclose($open); } else { echo "No Socket<BR>"; } $search = ereg("Location: (.*)", $data, $content); return $content[1]; } Seems to do the trick ... :-) Ronan e: ronan@thelittledot.com t: 01903 739 997 w: www.thelittledot.com The Little Dot is a partnership of Ronan Chilvers and Giles Webberley On 23 May,2003 at 3:48 Andy Green wrote: > i'm trying to capture output from a remote url(random.yahoo.com/fast/ryl) > and use it on my site. however, the remote url output always leads with a > Status 301 code, then outputs the data i want. as a result, the fopen() > function thinks that the connection to the remote url fails, and goes no > further. > > below is the code snippet i'm using to try and capture the stream, to no > avail... > > function random_website() > { > > $site = "http://random.yahoo.com/fast/ryl";; > $open = fopen($site, "r"); > $search = fread($open, 50000); > fclose($open); > $search = ereg("Location: (.*)", $search, $content); > return $content[1]; > } > > ultimately, what i want is the data given after the 301 code, which is a > random url generated when you load the remote url. > > any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. > > thanks > > green > > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
