Sending HTTP GET Request Using PHP - php

Question

I use the following code to send a get request to boilerpipe java web api to extract the html contents into plain text of a website,i use telerivet webhook api to send and recieve messages to my server where the php file is located,the timeout provided is 10 sec,i get timeout always with this code,please help me out
if ($_POST['secret'] !== $webhook_secret)
{
header('HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden');
echo "Invalid webhook secret";
}
else
{
if ($_POST['event'] == 'incoming_message')
{
$content = $_POST['content'];
$from_number = $_POST['from_number'];
$phone_id = $_POST['phone_id'];
// do something with the message, e.g. send an autoreply
header("Content-Type: application/json");
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
'http://boilerpipe-web.appspot.com/extract?url=http://www.kvgengg.com&extractor=DefaultExtractor&output=text&extractImages='
));
$content = curl_exec($ch);
echo $content;
}
}

Answer 1

It seems that there is a syntax error as you have an extra parentheses in the url, I've removed it.
As well if you use http_build_query to pass in your parameter it should solve your problem
if ($_POST['secret'] !== $webhook_secret)
{
header('HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden');
echo "Invalid webhook secret";
}
else
{
if ($_POST['event'] == 'incoming_message')
{
$content = $_POST['content'];
$from_number = $_POST['from_number'];
$phone_id = $_POST['phone_id'];
// do something with the message, e.g. send an autoreply
header("Content-Type: application/json");
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
'http://boilerpipe-web.appspot.com/extract?' .
http_build_query(array(
'url' => 'http://www.kvgengg.com',
'extractor' => 'DefaultExtractor'
'output' => 'text',
'extractImages' => ''
))
);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
echo $content;
}
}