Trying to get connects of URL with PHP CURL , but no success - php

Question

here is my URL: https://webservices-dev.compuscan.co.za:9443/PersonStatusService/user2/password2/8310240031083/XML
i am try to get its content with PHP curl but no success hope some can help.
here is my code:
// you can add anoother curl options too
// see here - http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
function get_data($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE); // Use POST method
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "var1=1&var2=2&var3=3"); // Define POST values
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$output = curl_getinfo($ch);
print_r($output);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
$url = "https://webservices-dev.compuscan.co.za:9443/PersonStatusService/user2/password2/8310240031083/XML" ;
$variablee = get_data($url);
echo $variable;

Answer 1

Well i am getting results as expected.
It should be
$variablee = get_data($url);
echo $variablee; //<--- Must be $variablee (as you have defined it above)
OUTPUT:
Array ( [url] =>
https://webservices-dev.compuscan.co.za:9443/PersonStatusService/user2/password2/8310240031083/XML
[content_type] => text/plain; charset=utf-8 [http_code] => 200
[header_size] => 81 [request_size] => 192 [filetime] => -1
[ssl_verify_result] => 19 [redirect_count] => 0 [total_time] => 1.544
[namelookup_time] => 0 [connect_time] => 0.343 [pretransfer_time] =>
1.186 [size_upload] => 0 [size_download] => 656 [speed_download] => 424 [speed_upload] => 0 [download_content_length] => 656
[upload_content_length] => 0 [starttransfer_time] => 1.544
[redirect_time] => 0 [certinfo] => Array ( ) [primary_ip] =>
196.34.30.23 [primary_port] => 9443 [local_ip] => 192.168.72.37 [local_port] => 61090 [redirect_url] => )
8310240031083CLAIRECSAPLARN1983/10/24FY2012/03/242013/09/308 SKALIE
STWEST ACRES EXT 1312012013/08/130768333118

Answer 2

function get_data($url) {
$ch = curl_init($url);
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0;
Windows NT 6.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($httpCode == 404) {
curl_close($ch);
return '404';
} else {
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
}
This function worked perfectly for me, maybe somebody finds it useful as I did. I'm not pretending to answer your question (well, I'm 9 months late) but solve people's similar questions about a similar issue.