get redirect url using curl_getinfo failed - php

Question

I used below function to get redirected (final) url of these links
http://iprice.my/coupons/zalora/
function curlFileGetContents($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
$effectiveUrl = $info['url'];
curl_close($ch);
return $effectiveUrl;
}
but I couldn't get anything, I wonder why? Eg I did curlFileGetContents('http://iprice.my/coupons/zalora/#007b9a6024d19edec91d04c2e92e143e744c83b6');

Answer 1

The URL isn't being redirected - the links you are referring to (that only spawn on that page) are pop unders. A look at the curl header shows the URL is not being re-directed:
curl --head http://iprice.my/coupons/zalora/#007b9a6024d19edec91d04c2e92e143e744c83b6
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.9
Cache-Control: no-cache
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 15:06:31 GMT
X-iPrice-Cached: 1
X-iPrice-Cached-Type: Response
The approach you currently have won't work for what you want to do.