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curl - test connection
hi e's, i have a script where i collect 10 url's.
i need a script in curl for check if that url's have connection.
i read some posts, and i thing curl is the best for do this.
i want to check all url's in the same script, like this:
call database
while(for get url)
curl// this is the part i need help.
regards, jc
i need a script in curl for check if that url's have connection.
i read some posts, and i thing curl is the best for do this.
i want to check all url's in the same script, like this:
call database
while(for get url)
curl// this is the part i need help.
regards, jc
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Here is what I use, modified slightly to return FALSE if it fails. Check the TIMEOUT to see if that is OK for your needs.
HTH, ~Ray
HTH, ~Ray
function my_curl($url) {
// HEADERS FROM FIREFOX - APPEARS TO BE A BROWSER REFERRED BY GOOGLE
$curl = curl_init();
$header[] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
if (!$html = curl_exec($curl)) { $html = FALSE; }
curl_close($curl);
return $html;
}
Hi @ray, thanks for the great script.
In the end of your script I put this lines:
//////////////////////////
$vision = my_curl("http://www.google.pt/search?q=free+photos&hl=pt-PT&start=10&sa=N");
echo $vision;
//////////////////////////
I execute the script and in browser appear entire site http://www.google.pt/search?q=free+photos&hl=pt-PT&start=10&sa=N
For this example I don't want the site, but just if each site have connection (try for one or two seconds).
I like your script but I need to adapt to my necessity, so I need something like this:
If ($html == true){
Connect
} else {
No connect
}
How I do that?
Regards, JC
In the end of your script I put this lines:
//////////////////////////
$vision = my_curl("http://www.google.pt/search?q=free+photos&hl=pt-PT&start=10&sa=N");
echo $vision;
//////////////////////////
I execute the script and in browser appear entire site http://www.google.pt/search?q=free+photos&hl=pt-PT&start=10&sa=N
For this example I don't want the site, but just if each site have connection (try for one or two seconds).
I like your script but I need to adapt to my necessity, so I need something like this:
If ($html == true){
Connect
} else {
No connect
}
How I do that?
Regards, JC
Hi again @ray, I put in this way for check the connection:
if(my_curl("http://www.google.pt/search?q=free+photos&hl=pt-PT&start=10&sa=N")) {
echo "Yes!";
} else {
echo "No.";
}
Do you thing this is the best way?
What this line do "curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);"?
Regards, JC
if(my_curl("http://www.google.pt/search?q=free+photos&hl=pt-PT&start=10&sa=N")) {
echo "Yes!";
} else {
echo "No.";
}
Do you thing this is the best way?
What this line do "curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);"?
Regards, JC
To just return True or False, try this.
The cURL options are documented here:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
The CURLOPT_TIMEOUT is the maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.
Best regards, ~Ray
The cURL options are documented here:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
The CURLOPT_TIMEOUT is the maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.
Best regards, ~Ray
function my_curl($url) {
// HEADERS FROM FIREFOX - APPEARS TO BE A BROWSER REFERRED BY GOOGLE
$curl = curl_init();
$header[] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
if (!$html = curl_exec($curl)) { $html = FALSE; }
curl_close($curl);
return TRUE;
}
Hi @ray, just one thing:
What is correct:
if (!$html = curl_exec($curl)) { $html = FALSE; } OR
if (!$html == curl_exec($curl)) { $html = FALSE; }
Regards, JC
What is correct:
if (!$html = curl_exec($curl)) { $html = FALSE; } OR
if (!$html == curl_exec($curl)) { $html = FALSE; }
Regards, JC
The single equal sign is correct but I see an error in my example. Corrected copy posted below.
This single-equal construct says, "run curl_exec and assign the output to $html, then test $html and if it is FALSE, it satisfies the 'if' statement."
This single-equal construct says, "run curl_exec and assign the output to $html, then test $html and if it is FALSE, it satisfies the 'if' statement."
function my_curl($url) {
// HEADERS FROM FIREFOX - APPEARS TO BE A BROWSER REFERRED BY GOOGLE
$curl = curl_init();
$header[] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
$header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
if (!$html = curl_exec($curl))
{
return FALSE;
}
curl_close($curl);
return TRUE;
}
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having a short look on the php site ( http://de2.php.net/manual/de/function.curl-init.php ),
the following might fit your needs...
It will return the retrieved bytes if everything goes well and FALSE if it doesn't
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