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My php project is using the reddit JSON api to grab the title of the current page's submission.
Right now I am doing running some code every time the page is loaded and I'm running in to some problems, even though there is no real API limit.
I would like to store the title of the submission locally somehow. Can you recommend the best way to do this? The site is running on appfog. What would you recommend?
This is my current code:
<?php
/* settings */
$url="http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$reddit_url = 'http://www.reddit.com/api/info.{format}?url='.$url;
$format = 'json'; //use XML if you'd like...JSON FTW!
$title = '';
/* action */
$content = get_url(str_replace('{format}',$format,$reddit_url)); //again, can be xml or json
if($content) {
if($format == 'json') {
$json = json_decode($content,true);
foreach($json['data']['children'] as $child) { // we want all children for this example
$title= $child['data']['title'];
}
}
}
/* output */
/* utility function: go get it! */
function get_url($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,1);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $content;
}
?>
Thanks!
Introduction
Here is a modified version of your code
$url = "http://stackoverflow.com/";
$loader = new Loader();
$loader->parse($url);
printf("<h4>New List : %d</h4>", count($loader));
printf("<ul>");
foreach ( $loader as $content ) {
printf("<li>%s</li>", $content['title']);
}
printf("</ul>");
Output
New List : 7New podcast from Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood. Good site for example code/ Pyhtonstackoverflow.com has clearly the best Web code ever conceived in the history of the Internet and reddit should better start copying it.A reddit-like, OpenID using website for programmersGreat developer site. Get your questions answered and by someone who knows.Stack Overflow launched into publicStack Overflow, a programming Q & A site. & Reddit could learn a lot from their interface!
Simple Demo
The Problem
I see some things you want to achieve here namely
I would like to store the title of the submission locally somehow
Right now I am doing running some code every time the page is loaded
From what i understand you need is a simple cache copy of your data so that you don't have to load the url all the time.
Simple Solution
A simple cache system you can use is memcache ..
Example A
$url = "http://stackoverflow.com/";
// Start cache
$m = new Memcache();
$m->addserver("localhost");
$cache = $m->get(sha1($url));
if ($cache) {
// Use cache copy
$loader = $cache;
printf("<h2>Cache List: %d</h2>", count($loader));
} else {
// Start a new Loader
$loader = new Loader();
$loader->parse($url);
printf("<h2>New List : %d</h2>", count($loader));
$m->set(sha1($url), $loader);
}
// Oupput all listing
printf("<ul>");
foreach ( $loader as $content ) {
printf("<li>%s</li>", $content['title']);
}
printf("</ul>");
Example B
You can use Last Modification Date as the cache key as so that you would only save new copy only if the document is modified
$headers = get_headers(sprintf("http://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=%s",$url), true);
$time = strtotime($headers['Date']); // get last modification date
$cache = $m->get($time);
if ($cache) {
$loader = $cache;
}
Since your class implements JsonSerializable you can json encode your result and also store in a Database like MongoDB or MySQL
$data = json_encode($loader);
// Save to DB
Class Used
class Loader implements IteratorAggregate, Countable, JsonSerializable {
private $request = "http://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=%s";
private $data = array();
private $total;
function parse($url) {
$content = json_decode($this->getContent(sprintf($this->request, $url)), true);
$this->data = array_map(function ($v) {
return $v['data'];
}, $content['data']['children']);
$this->total = count($this->data);
}
public function getIterator() {
return new ArrayIterator($this->data);
}
public function count() {
return $this->total;
}
public function getType() {
return $this->type;
}
public function jsonSerialize() {
return $this->data;
}
function getContent($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 1);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $content;
}
}
I'm not sure what your question is exactly but the first thing that pops is the following:
foreach($json['data']['children'] as $child) { // we want all children for this example
$title= $child['data']['title'];
}
Are you sure you want to overwrite $title? In effect, that will only hold the last $child title.
Now, to your question. I assume you're looking for some kind of mechanism to cache the contents of the requested URL so you don't have to re-issue the request every time, am I right? I don't have any experience with appFog, only with orchestra.io but I believe they have the same restrictions regarding writing to files, as in you can only write to temporary files.
My suggestion would be to cache the (processed) response in either:
APC shared memory with a short TTL
temporary files
database
You could use the hash of the URL + arguments as the lookup key, doing this check inside get_url() would mean you wouldn't need to change any other part of your code and it would only take ~3 LOC.
After this:
if($format == 'json') {
$json = json_decode($content,true);
foreach($json['data']['children'] as $child) { // we want all children for this example
$title = $child['data']['title'];
}
}
}`
Then store in a json file and dump it into your localfolder website path
$storeTitle = array('title'=>$title)
$fp = fopen('../pathToJsonFile/title.json'), 'w');
fwrite($fp, json_encode($storeTitle));
fclose($fp);
Then you can always call the json file next time and decode it and extract the title into a variable for use
i usually just store the data as is as a flat file, like so:
<?php
define('TEMP_DIR', 'temp/');
define('TEMP_AGE', 3600);
function getinfo($url) {
$temp = TEMP_DIR . urlencode($url) . '.json';
if(!file_exists($temp) OR time() - filemtime($temp) > TEMP_AGE) {
$info = "http://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?url=$url";
$json = file_get_contents($info);
file_put_contents($temp, $json);
}
else {
$json = file_get_contents($temp);
}
$json = json_decode($json, true);
$titles = array();
foreach($json['data']['children'] as $child) {
$titles[] = $child['data']['title'];
}
return $titles;
}
$test = getinfo('http://imgur.com/');
print_r($test);
PS.
i use file_get_contents to get the json data, you might have your own reasons to use curl.
also i don't check for format, cos clearly you prefer json.
I'm writing a RESTful API. I'm having trouble with uploading images using the different verbs.
Consider:
I have an object which can be created/modified/deleted/viewed via a post/put/delete/get request to a URL. The request is multi part form when there is a file to upload, or application/xml when there's just text to process.
To handle the image uploads which are associated with the object I am doing something like:
if(isset($_FILES['userfile'])) {
$data = $this->image_model->upload_image();
if($data['error']){
$this->response(array('error' => $error['error']));
}
$xml_data = (array)simplexml_load_string( urldecode($_POST['xml']) );
$object = (array)$xml_data['object'];
} else {
$object = $this->body('object');
}
The major problem here is when trying to handle a put request, obviously $_POST doesn't contain the put data (as far as I can tell!).
For reference this is how I'm building the requests:
curl -F userfile=#./image.png -F xml="<xml><object>stuff to edit</object></xml>"
http://example.com/object -X PUT
Does anyone have any ideas how I can access the xml variable in my PUT request?
First of all, $_FILES is not populated when handling PUT requests. It is only populated by PHP when handling POST requests.
You need to parse it manually. That goes for "regular" fields as well:
// Fetch content and determine boundary
$raw_data = file_get_contents('php://input');
$boundary = substr($raw_data, 0, strpos($raw_data, "\r\n"));
// Fetch each part
$parts = array_slice(explode($boundary, $raw_data), 1);
$data = array();
foreach ($parts as $part) {
// If this is the last part, break
if ($part == "--\r\n") break;
// Separate content from headers
$part = ltrim($part, "\r\n");
list($raw_headers, $body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $part, 2);
// Parse the headers list
$raw_headers = explode("\r\n", $raw_headers);
$headers = array();
foreach ($raw_headers as $header) {
list($name, $value) = explode(':', $header);
$headers[strtolower($name)] = ltrim($value, ' ');
}
// Parse the Content-Disposition to get the field name, etc.
if (isset($headers['content-disposition'])) {
$filename = null;
preg_match(
'/^(.+); *name="([^"]+)"(; *filename="([^"]+)")?/',
$headers['content-disposition'],
$matches
);
list(, $type, $name) = $matches;
isset($matches[4]) and $filename = $matches[4];
// handle your fields here
switch ($name) {
// this is a file upload
case 'userfile':
file_put_contents($filename, $body);
break;
// default for all other files is to populate $data
default:
$data[$name] = substr($body, 0, strlen($body) - 2);
break;
}
}
}
At each iteration, the $data array will be populated with your parameters, and the $headers array will be populated with the headers for each part (e.g.: Content-Type, etc.), and $filename will contain the original filename, if supplied in the request and is applicable to the field.
Take note the above will only work for multipart content types. Make sure to check the request Content-Type header before using the above to parse the body.
Please don't delete this again, it's helpful to a majority of people coming here! All previous answers were partial answers that don't cover the solution as a majority of people asking this question would want.
This takes what has been said above and additionally handles multiple file uploads and places them in $_FILES as someone would expect. To get this to work, you have to add 'Script PUT /put.php' to your Virtual Host for the project per Documentation. I also suspect I'll have to setup a cron to cleanup any '.tmp' files.
private function _parsePut( )
{
global $_PUT;
/* PUT data comes in on the stdin stream */
$putdata = fopen("php://input", "r");
/* Open a file for writing */
// $fp = fopen("myputfile.ext", "w");
$raw_data = '';
/* Read the data 1 KB at a time
and write to the file */
while ($chunk = fread($putdata, 1024))
$raw_data .= $chunk;
/* Close the streams */
fclose($putdata);
// Fetch content and determine boundary
$boundary = substr($raw_data, 0, strpos($raw_data, "\r\n"));
if(empty($boundary)){
parse_str($raw_data,$data);
$GLOBALS[ '_PUT' ] = $data;
return;
}
// Fetch each part
$parts = array_slice(explode($boundary, $raw_data), 1);
$data = array();
foreach ($parts as $part) {
// If this is the last part, break
if ($part == "--\r\n") break;
// Separate content from headers
$part = ltrim($part, "\r\n");
list($raw_headers, $body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $part, 2);
// Parse the headers list
$raw_headers = explode("\r\n", $raw_headers);
$headers = array();
foreach ($raw_headers as $header) {
list($name, $value) = explode(':', $header);
$headers[strtolower($name)] = ltrim($value, ' ');
}
// Parse the Content-Disposition to get the field name, etc.
if (isset($headers['content-disposition'])) {
$filename = null;
$tmp_name = null;
preg_match(
'/^(.+); *name="([^"]+)"(; *filename="([^"]+)")?/',
$headers['content-disposition'],
$matches
);
list(, $type, $name) = $matches;
//Parse File
if( isset($matches[4]) )
{
//if labeled the same as previous, skip
if( isset( $_FILES[ $matches[ 2 ] ] ) )
{
continue;
}
//get filename
$filename = $matches[4];
//get tmp name
$filename_parts = pathinfo( $filename );
$tmp_name = tempnam( ini_get('upload_tmp_dir'), $filename_parts['filename']);
//populate $_FILES with information, size may be off in multibyte situation
$_FILES[ $matches[ 2 ] ] = array(
'error'=>0,
'name'=>$filename,
'tmp_name'=>$tmp_name,
'size'=>strlen( $body ),
'type'=>$value
);
//place in temporary directory
file_put_contents($tmp_name, $body);
}
//Parse Field
else
{
$data[$name] = substr($body, 0, strlen($body) - 2);
}
}
}
$GLOBALS[ '_PUT' ] = $data;
return;
}
For whom using Apiato (Laravel) framework:
create new Middleware like file below, then declair this file in your laravel kernel file within the protected $middlewareGroups variable (inside web or api, whatever you want) like this:
protected $middlewareGroups = [
'web' => [],
'api' => [HandlePutFormData::class],
];
<?php
namespace App\Ship\Middlewares\Http;
use Closure;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ParameterBag;
/**
* #author Quang Pham
*/
class HandlePutFormData
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
*
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if ($request->method() == 'POST' or $request->method() == 'GET') {
return $next($request);
}
if (preg_match('/multipart\/form-data/', $request->headers->get('Content-Type')) or
preg_match('/multipart\/form-data/', $request->headers->get('content-type'))) {
$parameters = $this->decode();
$request->merge($parameters['inputs']);
$request->files->add($parameters['files']);
}
return $next($request);
}
public function decode()
{
$files = [];
$data = [];
// Fetch content and determine boundary
$rawData = file_get_contents('php://input');
$boundary = substr($rawData, 0, strpos($rawData, "\r\n"));
// Fetch and process each part
$parts = $rawData ? array_slice(explode($boundary, $rawData), 1) : [];
foreach ($parts as $part) {
// If this is the last part, break
if ($part == "--\r\n") {
break;
}
// Separate content from headers
$part = ltrim($part, "\r\n");
list($rawHeaders, $content) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $part, 2);
$content = substr($content, 0, strlen($content) - 2);
// Parse the headers list
$rawHeaders = explode("\r\n", $rawHeaders);
$headers = array();
foreach ($rawHeaders as $header) {
list($name, $value) = explode(':', $header);
$headers[strtolower($name)] = ltrim($value, ' ');
}
// Parse the Content-Disposition to get the field name, etc.
if (isset($headers['content-disposition'])) {
$filename = null;
preg_match(
'/^form-data; *name="([^"]+)"(; *filename="([^"]+)")?/',
$headers['content-disposition'],
$matches
);
$fieldName = $matches[1];
$fileName = (isset($matches[3]) ? $matches[3] : null);
// If we have a file, save it. Otherwise, save the data.
if ($fileName !== null) {
$localFileName = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'sfy');
file_put_contents($localFileName, $content);
$files = $this->transformData($files, $fieldName, [
'name' => $fileName,
'type' => $headers['content-type'],
'tmp_name' => $localFileName,
'error' => 0,
'size' => filesize($localFileName)
]);
// register a shutdown function to cleanup the temporary file
register_shutdown_function(function () use ($localFileName) {
unlink($localFileName);
});
} else {
$data = $this->transformData($data, $fieldName, $content);
}
}
}
$fields = new ParameterBag($data);
return ["inputs" => $fields->all(), "files" => $files];
}
private function transformData($data, $name, $value)
{
$isArray = strpos($name, '[]');
if ($isArray && (($isArray + 2) == strlen($name))) {
$name = str_replace('[]', '', $name);
$data[$name][]= $value;
} else {
$data[$name] = $value;
}
return $data;
}
}
Pls note: Those codes above not all mine, some from above comment, some modified by me.
Quoting netcoder reply : "Take note the above will only work for multipart content types"
To work with any content type I have added the following lines to Mr. netcoder's solution :
// Fetch content and determine boundary
$raw_data = file_get_contents('php://input');
$boundary = substr($raw_data, 0, strpos($raw_data, "\r\n"));
/*...... My edit --------- */
if(empty($boundary)){
parse_str($raw_data,$data);
return $data;
}
/* ........... My edit ends ......... */
// Fetch each part
$parts = array_slice(explode($boundary, $raw_data), 1);
$data = array();
............
...............
I've been trying to figure out how to work with this issue without having to break RESTful convention and boy howdie, what a rabbit hole, let me tell you.
I'm adding this anywhere I can find in the hope that it will help somebody out in the future.
I've just lost a day of development firstly figuring out that this was an issue, then figuring out where the issue lay.
As mentioned, this isn't a symfony (or laravel, or any other framework) issue, it's a limitation of PHP.
After trawling through a good few RFCs for php core, the core development team seem somewhat resistant to implementing anything to do with modernising the handling of HTTP requests. The issue was first reported in 2011, it doesn't look any closer to having a native solution.
That said, I managed to find this PECL extension called Always Populate Form Data. I'm not really very familiar with pecl, and couldn't seem to get it working using pear. but I'm using CentOS and Remi PHP which has a yum package.
I ran yum install php-pecl-apfd and it literally fixed the issue straight away (well I had to restart my docker containers but that was a given).
I believe there are other packages in various flavours of linux and I'm sure anybody with more knowledge of pear/pecl/general php extensions could get it running on windows or mac with no issue.
I know this article is old.
But unfortunately, PHP still does not pay attention to form-data other than the Post method.
Thanks to friends (#netcoder, #greendot, #pham-quang) who suggested solutions above.
Using those solutions I wrote a library for this purpose:
composer require alireaza/php-form-data
You can also use composer require alireaza/laravel-form-data in Laravel.
I create a rest-webservice with the php framework "tonic".
I have a User Class and handle it with the library.
According to CRUD i use HTTP_PUT to UPDATE the User:
function put($request) {
$response = new Response($request);
$split = explode ('&',$request);
$para = array();
foreach($split as $i) {
$names = explode('=',$i);
$para[$names[0]] = $names[1];
}
$response->body = var_dump($para);
return $response;
}
My Question is how do I access the calling parameters?
At the moment I parse it manually into an array.
PHP will not translate a classic "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" request into $_POST / $_GET if the method is PUT (and there is no $_PUT).
So if you use this content type you have to parse the query string manually:
<?php
$putdata = fopen("php://input", "r");
$para = parse_str($putdata);
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.put-method.php
I have a problem right now with CodeIgniter : I use the REST Controller library (which is really awesome) to create an API but I can not get PUT requests...
This is my code :
function user_put() {
$user_id = $this->get("id");
echo $user_id;
$username = $this->put("username");
echo $username;
}
I use curl to make the request :
curl -i -X PUT -d "username=test" http://[...]/user/id/1
The user_id is full but the username variable is empty. Yet it works with the verbs POST and GET.
Have you any idea please?
Thank you !
According to: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/working-with-restful-services-in-codeigniter-2/ we should consult https://github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-restserver/blob/master/application/libraries/REST_Controller.php#L544 to see that this method:
/**
* Detect method
*
* Detect which method (POST, PUT, GET, DELETE) is being used
*
* #return string
*/
protected function _detect_method() {
$method = strtolower($this->input->server('REQUEST_METHOD'));
if ($this->config->item('enable_emulate_request')) {
if ($this->input->post('_method')) {
$method = strtolower($this->input->post('_method'));
} else if ($this->input->server('HTTP_X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE')) {
$method = strtolower($this->input->server('HTTP_X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE'));
}
}
if (in_array($method, array('get', 'delete', 'post', 'put'))) {
return $method;
}
return 'get';
}
looks to see if we've defined the HTTP header HTTP_X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE and it uses that in favor of the actual verb we've implemented on the web. To use this in a request you would specify the header X-HTTP-Method-Override: method (so X-HTTP-Method-Override: put) to generate a custom method override. Sometimes the framework expects X-HTTP-Method instead of X-HTTP-Method-Override so this varies by framework.
If you were doing such a request via jQuery, you would integrate this chunk into your ajax request:
beforeSend: function (XMLHttpRequest) {
//Specify the HTTP method DELETE to perform a delete operation.
XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("X-HTTP-Method-Override", "DELETE");
}
You can try to detect the method type first and seperate the different cases. If your controller only handles REST functions it could be helpful to put get the required information in the constructor.
switch($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']){
case 'GET':
$var_array=$this->input->get();
...
break;
case 'POST':
$var_array=$this->input->post();
...
break;
case 'PUT':
case 'DELETE':
parse_str(file_get_contents("php://input"),$var_array);
...
break;
default:
echo "I don't know how to handle this request.";
}
In CodeIgniter 4 use getRawInput which will retrieve data and convert it to an array.
$data = $request->getRawInput();
look this issue in github
PUT parameters only work in JSON format
https://github.com/chriskacerguis/codeigniter-restserver/issues/362
Checkout this link in the official Code Igniter Docs Using the Input Stream for Custom Request Methods
This is the Code Igniter way to do it.
Just call the below if the body of the request is form-urlencoded
$var1 = $this->input->input_stream('var_key')
// Or
$var1 = $this->security->xss_clean($this->input->input_stream('var_key'));
Codeigniter put_stream has provided no help, instead I had to use php input stream as following method can be added to helpers, from there you can parse put request in any of the controllers:
function parsePutRequest()
{
// Fetch content and determine boundary
$raw_data = file_get_contents('php://input');
$boundary = substr($raw_data, 0, strpos($raw_data, "\r\n"));
// Fetch each part
$parts = array_slice(explode($boundary, $raw_data), 1);
$data = array();
foreach ($parts as $part) {
// If this is the last part, break
if ($part == "--\r\n") break;
// Separate content from headers
$part = ltrim($part, "\r\n");
list($raw_headers, $body) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $part, 2);
// Parse the headers list
$raw_headers = explode("\r\n", $raw_headers);
$headers = array();
foreach ($raw_headers as $header) {
list($name, $value) = explode(':', $header);
$headers[strtolower($name)] = ltrim($value, ' ');
}
// Parse the Content-Disposition to get the field name, etc.
if (isset($headers['content-disposition'])) {
$filename = null;
preg_match(
'/^(.+); *name="([^"]+)"(; *filename="([^"]+)")?/',
$headers['content-disposition'],
$matches
);
list(, $type, $name) = $matches;
isset($matches[4]) and $filename = $matches[4];
// handle your fields here
switch ($name) {
// this is a file upload
case 'userfile':
file_put_contents($filename, $body);
break;
// default for all other files is to populate $data
default:
$data[$name] = substr($body, 0, strlen($body) - 2);
break;
}
}
}
return $data;
}
CodeIgniter doesn't support reading incoming PUT requests and if it's not essential I would stick to GET/POST for your API as its probably not necessary.
If you do need to read PUT requests take a look at Accessing Incoming PUT Data from PHP.
I am trying to download a rapidshare file using its "download" subroutine as a free user. The following is the code that I use to get response from the subroutine.
function rs_download($params)
{
$url = "http://api.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/rsapi.cgi?sub=download&fileid=".$params['fileid']."&filename=".$params['filename'];
$reply = #file_get_contents($url);
if(!$reply)
{
return false;
}
$result_arr = array();
$result_keys = array(0=> 'hostname', 1=>'dlauth', 2=>'countdown_time', 3=>'md5hex');
if( preg_match("/DL:(.*)/", $reply, $reply_matches) )
{
$reply_altered = $reply_matches[1];
}
else
{
return false;
}
foreach( explode(',', $reply_altered) as $index => $value )
{
$result_arr[ $result_keys[$index] ] = $value;
}
return $result_arr;
}
For instance; trying to download this...
http://rapidshare.com/files/440817141/AutoRun__live-down.com_Champ.rar
I pass the fileid(440817141) and filename(AutoRun__live-down.com_Champ.rar) to rs_download(...) and I get a response just as rapidshare's api doc says.
The rapidshare api doc (see "sub=download") says call the server hostname with the download authentication string but I couldn't figure out what form the url should take.
Any suggestions?, I tried
$download_url = "http://$the-hostname/$the-dlauth-string/files/$fileid/$filename"
and a couple other variations of the above, nothing worked.
I use curl to download the file, like the following;
$cr = curl_init();
$fp = fopen ("d:/downloaded_files/file1.rar", "w");
// set curl options
$curl_options = array(
CURLOPT_URL => $download_url
,CURLOPT_FILE => $fp
,CURLOPT_HEADER => false
,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 0
,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true
);
curl_setopt_array($cr, $curl_options);
curl_exec($cr);
curl_close($cr);
fclose($fp);
The above curl code doesn't seem to work, nothing gets downloaded. Probably its the download url that is incorrect.
Also tried this format for the download url:
"http://rs$serverid$shorthost.rapidshare.com/files/$fileid/$filename"
With this curl writes a file entry but that is all it does(writes a 0/1 kb file).
Here is the code that I use to get the serverid, shorthost, among a few other values from rapidshare.
function rs_checkfile($params)
{
$url = "http://api.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/rsapi.cgi?sub=checkfiles_v1&files=".$params['fileids']."&filenames=".$params['filenames'];
// the response from rapishare would a string something like:
// 440817141,AutoRun__live-down.com_Champ.rar,47768,20,1,l3,0
$reply = #file_get_contents($url);
if(!$reply)
{
return false;
}
$result_arr = array();
$result_keys = array(0=> 'file_id', 1=>'file_name', 2=>'file_size', 3=>'server_id', 4=>'file_status', 5=>'short_host'
, 6=>'md5');
foreach( explode(',', $reply) as $index => $value )
{
$result_arr[ $result_keys[$index] ] = $value;
}
return $result_arr;
}
rs_checkfile(...) takes comma seperated fileids and filenames(no commas if calling for a single file)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
You start by requesting ?sub=download&fileid=X&filename=Y, and it returns $hostname,$dlauth,$countdown,$md5hex.. since you're a free user you have to delay for $countdown seconds, and then call ?sub=download&fileid=X&filename=Y&dlauth=Z to perform the download.
There's a working implementation in python here that would probably answer any of your other questions.