Get attribute with file_get_contents PHP - php

Question

I have a sql query that I store in a variable and I displayed. I get the contents of this with file_get_contents from another file, I would like to recover some of this code (which is html) in order to make link. More precisely retrieve the id.
My api.php
$base = mysql_connect ('localhost','root','');
mysql_select_db('administrations', $base);
if(isset($_GET['cp']))
{
$sql = 'SELECT NOM_organisme, ID_organisme
FROM organismes
WHERE code_postal LIKE "%'.$_GET['cp'].'%"
ORDER BY NOM_organisme;';
$req = mysql_query($sql) or die('SQL Error !<br>'.$sql.'<br />'.mysql_error());
}
while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($req))
{
echo '<p id="'.$data['ID_organisme'].'"'.
$data['NOM_organisme'].'</br>'.
$data['ID_organisme'].'</p></br>';
}
I want to get the id="I WANT THIS".
And my index.php (part of my code that retrieves the contents).
if(isset($_POST['cp']))
{
$api = "http://mywebsite.fr/api.php?cp=".$_POST['cp'];
$var = file_get_contents($api);
echo $var;
}
How can I get the id="" in my index.php ?

Answer 1

please look at php get documentation. you need to link to your script with url parameters and access them in your php code.
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php
echo ''.$data['NOM_organisme'].'</br>'.$data['ID_organisme'].'</br>';
php
if(isset($_GET['id']))
{
$api = "http://mywebsite.fr/api.php?cp=".$_GET['id'];
$var = file_get_contents($api);
echo $var;
}
if you dont want to use url parameter you can use post values
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.post.php

Answer 2

I understand what your trying to do, but dont find it logical without knowing the purpose of this tiny code :)
Do you have a link or some sort?
Basicly what i should do is:
$base = mysql_connect ('localhost','root','');
mysql_select_db('administrations', $base);
if(isset($_POST['cp']))
{
$sql = 'SELECT NOM_organisme, ID_organisme FROM organismes WHERE code_postal LIKE "%'.$_GET['cp'].'%" ORDER BY NOM_organisme;';
$req = mysql_query($sql) or die('SQL Error !<br>'.$sql.'<br />'.mysql_error());
while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($req))
{
echo '<p id="'.$data['ID_organisme'].'"'.$data['NOM_organisme'].'</br>'.$data['ID_organisme'].'</p></br>';
}
} else {
echo 'show something else';
}

Answer 3

If I get you correctly, you are
Sending a GET request in index.php using file_get_contents() to your website.
The website (api.php) performs an SQL query and prints the result in HTML.
index.php takes this HTML output and stores it in the variable $var.
You want to retrieve all values contained inside the id attribute of the paragraph.
In this case, you probably want to use regular expressions. preg_match_all seems to be appropriate. It should work for you like this:
$out = array();
preg_match_all("/id=\"([^\"]*?)\"/U", $var, $out);
foreach ($out as $value) {
echo 'I found some id ' . htmlspecialchars($out[$value][2]) . '<br />';
}
And additionally:
A decent HTML parser would be much more appropriate in this case (eg. it would not match id="X" in flow text).
Your PHP code is vulnerable to SQL injections.
You should sanitize plain text to HTML appropriately.

Answer 4

First of all, you should try to display your API reply as a JSON-string, this is much more convenient.
If you still want to use your api.php, you first need to close your opening paragraph! You did forget a '>'!
echo '<p id="'.$data['ID_organisme'].'">'.
$data['NOM_organisme'].'</br>'.
$data['ID_organisme'].'</p></br>';
Then you need to parse your paragraph.
You can do it like that:
if(isset($_POST['cp']))
{
$api = "http://mywebsite.fr/api.php?cp=".$_POST['cp'];
$var = file_get_contents($api);
preg_match("#<p id='(.*)'#", $var, $matches);
id = $matches[1];
echo $id;
}