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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

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Pedro Chagas

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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

Pedro Chagas

ASKER

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

Ray Paseur

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

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;
}

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Pedro Chagas

ASKER

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

Ray Paseur

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."

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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