Using Snoopy PHP class in Drupal - php

Question

I really don't know Drupal but have managed to create a simple HTML page that I would like to use the first and last name inputted to run snoopy.class.php to run a script on a web site to retrieve some data. The button should run a function that will submit the URL but I am not getting any results.
Because I don't know how to debug in Drupal I added some echo statements to see how far the code ran it seems to be stopping when it tries to create a new snoopy object. I downloaded the class and put it in what I would think would be an accessible folder, namely public_html/tools it:
-rw-r--r-- 1 agentpitstop apache 37815 Sep 3 21:03 Snoopy.class.php
Below is the code I am using
<form method="post">
<p>Last Name: <input type="text" name="lastname" /><br />
First Name: <input type="text" name="firstname" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send it!"></p>
</form>
<?php
if($_POST)
{
echo "1st display <br />\n";
$url = "https://pdb-services-beta.nipr.com/pdb-xml-reports/hitlist_xml.cgi?";
$url = $url . "customer_number=beta83agent&pin_number=nipr123&report_type=1";
$lastname = $_POST['lastname'];
$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$parms = array("name_last"=>$lastname,"name_first"=>$firstname);
echo "2nd display <br />\n";
$result = curl_download($url,$parms);
$xml=simplexml_load_file("$result.xml");
$nipr_id = $xml->NPN;
echo "url " . $url . "<br />\n";
echo "Agent " . $_POST['firstname'] . " " . $_POST['lastname'] . " Id is:". $nipr_id . "<br />\n";
echo "3rd Result from call " . $result . "<br />\n";
}
?>
<?php
include "Snoopy.class.php";
function curl_download($url,$parms)
{
echo "in call to curldownload ";
$snoopy = new Snoopy();
echo "after setting object";
$snoopy->curl_path = "/usr/bin/curl"; # Or whatever your path to curl is - 'which curl' in terminal will give it to you. Needed because snoopy uses standalone curl to deal with https sites, not php_curl builtin.
echo "after setting path";
$snoopy->httpsmethod = "POST";
echo "after setting post";
$snoopy->submit($url, $parms);
echo "after setting submit";
print $snoopy->results;
echo "results: " . results;
return $snoopy->results;
}
?>
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you need custom development on a Drupal site create a custom module and use Drupal's form API.
If you need to perform HTTP request from PHP, use a PHP library/extension, such a php-curl, Guzzle or Drupal's drupal_http_request(). And yes, they all support HTTPS.