how do I get my browser session from a get request - php

How do I use my current browser session and create a GET request in PHP based on that?
I tried the following:
$ch = curl_init();
// set url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost/x/");
//return the transfer as a string
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//enable headers
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
//get only headers
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
// $output contains the output string
$output = curl_exec($ch);
// close curl resource to free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
$headers=array();
$data=explode("\n",$output);
$headers['status']=$data[0];
array_shift($data);
foreach($data as $part){
$middle=explode(":",$part);
$headers[trim($middle[0])] = trim($middle[1]);
}
//print all headers as array
echo "<pre>";
print_r($headers);
echo "</pre>";
after checking, it seems that it is not really using my session to create the GET request, rather, it is creating an entire new GET request.
I also tried to pull the headers only of a get_headers() but that seemed to have the same issue for some reason. Is there a way to pull up my current session from a browser and use that in a GET request rather than having a new one every time? (I will be in the same machine so the session is mine). In short, I want to initiate a GET request using my current session.

Related

Open a URL with a PHP within it using cURL

I am trying to fetch data from a URL using cURL...this is something I would be able to do but the URL that I want to fetch data from has a section of php code within it - i.e. the URL is populated using a values generated by an earlier section of code.
I want to access the URL, take the figures out of it and then plug those figures into something else. At the minute I am hitting a bit of a roadblock as the php doesn't populate the URL...any ideas?
The code I am using is:
$url = "https://*START OF API ADDRESS*<?php echo $request_ids; ?>*END OF API ADDRESS*";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
//var_dump(json_decode($result, true));
$rates = json_decode($result, true);
// Save result
$rates['last_updated'] = time();
file_put_contents($file, json_encode($rates));
}

how do php scripts for data mining from web pages work?

[Edited for better explanation and code included]
Hi! I have a php script on my web server that logs in to my heat pump web interface nibeuplink.com and gets all my temperature readings and so forth and returns them in a json-format.
freeboard.io is a free service for visualizing data, so I'm making a freeboard.io for my heat pump values. in freeboard.io I can add any json data as a data source, so I have added the link to my php-script. It fetches the data once but it seems there is some kind of cached values that it uses after that so they are not updated with new values from the script. freeboard.io uses a get-function to get the url. If i use a normal web browser to run the php script and refresh it, the values are updated - and also immediately updated in freeboard.io. Freeboard.io has a setting to automatically update the data source every 5 seconds.
It seems that there is something that triggers the script correctly when it is fetched from my web browser, but not when it is fetched from freeboard.io that uses a get function every 5 seconds to get new data.
in freeboard I can add headers to the get request, is there some header that would help me here to discard any cached data?
I hope that explains my problem better.
Is there anything i can add to my code in the beginning to always force an override of any cached data?
<?php
/*
* read nibe heatpump values from nibeuplink status web page and return them in json format.
* based on: https://www.symcon.de/forum/threads/25663-Heizung-Nibe-F750-Nibe-Uplink-auslesen-auswerten
* to get the code which is required as parameter, log into nibe uplink, open status page of your heatpump, and check url:
* https://www.nibeuplink.com/System/<code>/Status/Overview
*
* usage: nibe.php?email=<email>&password=<password>&code=<code>
*/
// to add additional debug output to the resulting page:
$debug = false;
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Helsinki');
$date = time();
// Create temp file to store cookies
$ckfile = tempnam ("/tmp", "CURLCOOKIE");
// URL to login page
$url = "https://www.nibeuplink.com/LogIn";
// Get Login page and its cookies and save cookies in the temp file
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); // Accepts all CAs
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $ckfile); // Stores cookies in the temp file
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
// Now you have the cookie, you can POST login values
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "Email=".$_GET['email']."&Password=".$_GET['password']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile); // Uses cookies from the temp file
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // Tells cURL to follow redirects
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.nibeuplink.com/System/".$_GET['code']."/Status/ServiceInfo");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$pattern = '/<h3>(.*?)<\/h3>\s*<table[^>]*>.+?<tbody>(.+?)<\/tbody>\s*<\/table>/s';
if ($debug) echo "pattern: <xmp>".$pattern."</xmp><br>";
$pattern2 = '/<tr>\s*<td>(.+?)<span[^>]*>[^<]*<\/span>\s*<\/td>\s*<td>\s*<span[^>]*>([^<]*)<\/span>\s*<\/td>\s*<\/tr>/s';
if ($debug) echo "pattern2: <xmp>".$pattern2."</xmp><br>";
preg_match_all($pattern, $result, $matches);
// build json format from matches
echo '{';
$first = true;
foreach ($matches[1] as $i => $title) {
echo ($first ? '"' : ',"').trim($title).'":{';
$content = $matches[2][$i];
preg_match_all($pattern2, $content, $values);
$nestedFirst = true;
foreach ($values[1] as $j => $field) {
echo ($nestedFirst ? '"' : ',"').trim($field).'":"'.$values[2][$j].'"';
$nestedFirst = false;
}
echo "}";
$first = false;
}
echo ",\"time\":{\"Last fetch\":\"$date\"}";
echo "}";
if ($debug) {
echo "<pre><xmp>";
echo print_r($matches);
echo "<br><br>";
echo $result;
echo "</xmp></pre>";
}
?>
You can make an ajax call to php script to refresh the part of webpage. I don't understand what do you mean by io i.e. are you talking about fetching the data from database and if any changes occurred in database then only newly added records must be fetched. If you mean it in that sense then you can use cookie to track any new records added into database and only if it finds new records it can make ajax call to php script to run your algorithm on fetched total dataset.

Get data from an another webpage

I want to to extract buy and sell value from this website
How can I do this using file_get_contents() in PHP
For e.g
$abc = file_get_content("https://www.unocoin.com/trade?all");
Now how can I extract buy and sell value from it in every 2 min?
Here if you want to extract data from other webpage than you use php curl
Example
function curl_download($Url){
// is cURL installed yet?
if (!function_exists('curl_init')){
die('Sorry cURL is not installed!');
}
// OK cool - then let's create a new cURL resource handle
$ch = curl_init();
// Now set some options (most are optional)
// Set URL to download
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);
// Include header in result? (0 = yes, 1 = no)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// Should cURL return or print out the data? (true = return, false = print)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Timeout in seconds
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
// Download the given URL, and return output
$output = curl_exec($ch);
// Close the cURL resource, and free system resources
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}
print curl_download('https://www.unocoin.com/trade?all');
For this particular site, the data is json encoded so all you need to do is and it does not seem to have any further authentication requirement, as I can just get to the link and see the data.
$abc = file_get_content("https://www.unocoin.com/trade?all");
$decoded_abc=json_decode($abc);
$buy=$decoded_abc->buy;
$sell=$decoded_abc->sell;

Get last available URL

I am using an API to get the users profile picture. The call looks something like this
https://familysearch.org/platform/tree/persons/{$rid}/portrait?access_token={$_SESSION['fs-session']}&default=https://eternalreminder.com/dev/graphics/{$default_gender}_default.svg
This link only works for about an hour because the user's session token expires then. I was wondering if there was any way to retrieve the last returned returned URL, which would be the direct link to the image, so I could store that in a database.
I have tried Google but I don't really know where to start.
Thanks in advance!
I was able to solve my own problem. It was doing a redirect to get the image and I just needed that URL. Here is my code that helped me get there.
$url="http://libero-news.it.feedsportal.com/c/34068/f/618095/s/2e34796f/l/0L0Sliberoquotidiano0Bit0Cnews0C12735670CI0Esaggi0Eper0Ele0Eriforme0Ecostituzionali0EChiaccherano0Ee0Eascoltano0Bhtml/story01.htm";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // Must be set to true so that PHP follows any "Location:" header
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$a = curl_exec($ch); // $a will contain all headers
$url = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL); // This is what you need, it will return you the last effective URL
// Uncomment to see all headers
/*
echo "<pre>";
print_r($a);echo"<br>";
echo "</pre>";
*/
echo $url; // Voila

Unable to exchange Session Data in CURL

I call invoke.php using CURL from curl.php from my localhost. In invoke.php i store some data in session. But when i try to access those session data from curl.php, don't get those session data. How i get those values?
Content of curl.php
`include_once ('session.php');
$handles = array();
$urlArray = array('http://localhost/invoke.php' );
foreach($urlArray as $url){
// create a new single curl handle
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
// add this handle to the multi handle
curl_multi_add_handle($mh,$ch);
// put the handles in an array to loop this later on
$handles[] = $ch;
}
// execute the multi handle
$running=null;
do {
curl_multi_exec($mh,$running);
// added a usleep for 0.25 seconds to reduce load
usleep (250000);
} while ($running > 0);
// get the content of the urls (if there is any)
for($i=0;$i
{
// get the content of the handle
// $output.= curl_multi_getcontent($handles[$i]);
// remove the handle from the multi handle
curl_multi_remove_handle($mh,$handles[$i]);
}
echo SessionHandler :: getData('DATA');
`
Content of invoke.php
include_once ('session.php');
echo SessionHandler :: setData('DATA', 'HELLO WORLD');
There are two possible issues:
You can't be sure that both scripts will access same session (have same session id), actually I can bet they have separate sessions. Of course, you could enforce that by sending the session id from invoke.php to curl.php by adding an extra parameter tot the URL and then use that parameter to force the session id in curl.php
Second possible issue is that the session variables are read on session_start (that's when the $_SESSION is populated), but you modify the session content after you start the session (in session.php, I assume), that's why any changes (even if the conditions on 1. will be met), will not reflect into already opened session in invoke.php. I think you should force session to close and restart it.
I had the same issue. This is how I resolved it:
function getContent($url){
$cookiesStr = '';
foreach($_COOKIE as $k => $v){
$cookiesStr.= $k . '=' . $v . '; ';
}#end COOKIE
$cookiesStr = rtrim($cookiesStr, ' ');
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, '/tmp/cookies.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, '/tmp/cookies.txt');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookiesStr);
ob_start();
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$string = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
return $string;
}#end getContent
You have to have a tmp cookie jar or it will produce an infinite loop. You have to send cookies or you will not get a result.
I able to solve this problem. I set curl_
setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE,session_name().'='.session_id());
to use same session id and use php's session_write_close() function to write session data.

Categories