In my html file I am encoding an URL like this:
encodeURIComponent(url);
In my PHP file I use GET to grab the url and sanitize:
$url = filter_var(filter_var(($_GET['url']), FILTER_SANITIZE_URL),FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
I'm experiencing some trouble when adding other parameters to the URL. When I take out the javascript encodeURIComponent the whole thing starts working but I really would like to use encodeURIComponent, so I tried to decode the URL on PHP side:
$url = filter_var(filter_var((urldecode($_GET['url'])), FILTER_SANITIZE_URL),FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
Doesn't work, I tried other things with no luck. I don't see how the above wouldn't work. What else can I try, what am I doing wrong?
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I am passing url variables, and this URL variables has been encoded. My goal was to decode the URL that has been passed and use this URL to get its DOM. The code below is what I am using but failed to accomplish my goal. It just shows a blank page. But if I decode the url first manually and try it, it works.
NOTE, the URL has an extention of MP4 but it is in html format. So don't let it confuse you.
$url_link = urldecode('http%3A%2F%2Fplaybb.me%2Fembed.php%3Fw%3D600%26%23038%3Bh%3D438%26%23038%3Bvid%3Dat%2Fnw%2Fzettai_shougeki_platonic_heart_-_01.mp4');
$html = file_get_html($url_link);
$raw_html = $html->find('html', 0)->innertext;
echo $raw_html;
I'm trying to use the Premium URL Shortener script from codecanyon, I have asked for support but they seem to be a little busy, so the response time is not to quick.
The issue I have is when the API sends the request to the url shortener script with the following shortened query for example purposes:
$short = "http://myurl/api?api=MYAPI&format=text&url=http://myfullwebsite.com/email/quote.php?fullname=$fullname&address=$address&emailaddress=$emailaddress";
Although the variables are being placed in the script correctly using echo function at the end of the script after the api request is sent shows they are correctly inserted like so:
http://myurl/api?api=MYAPI&format=text&url=http://myfullwebsite.com/email/quote.php?fullname=Dan Smith&address=12 Main Street, London&emailaddress=dan#smith.com
However if I click the shortened url provided to me from the script I only get the following url string appear in the browser:
http://myfullwebsite.com/email/quote.php?fullname=Dan
It seems as soon as there is a space or even if there is no second name such as Dan Smith and only Dan is the available name, it will not even apply the second ampersand or & sign.
I have tried to use urlecode() but still no joy and I've been pulling my hair out for the last 3 days!
As a novice beginner it has been somewhat difficult to try and achieve the end result and it seems unreachable so I would appreciate any kind help or advice if possible, Maybe I'm missing something so simple?
I've thought of having the url query build from an array of variables but as a novice I've tried one way and failed so not sure if I have done it wrong.
Here is my full api code where I have tried both with SESSION and GET but that is not the problem as the end result echos to the browser with the variables there.. it's only when you follow the shortened url link that you see they're missing.
<?php
session_start();
$fullname = htmlspecialchars($_GET["fullname"]);
$address = htmlspecialchars($_GET["address"]);
$postcode = htmlspecialchars($_GET["postcode"]);
$emailaddress = htmlspecialchars($_GET["emailaddress"]);
$short = "http://myurl/api?api=MYAPI&format=text&url=http://ukhomesurveys.co.uk/email/quote.php?fullname=$fullname&address=$address&emailaddress=$emailaddress";
echo $short;
// Using Plain Text Response
$api_url = $short;
$res= #file_get_contents($api_url);
if($res){
echo $res;
}
?>
Hope I covered everything and hope I have not confused anyone. Thanks.
I think the good choice here is to encode your query with base64 and then pass it to the shortener. In your http://myfullwebsite.com/email/quote.php you just decode the query and use it. The standart PHP functions are base64_encode and base64_decode.
Did you try to encode URI using rawurlencode?
$url = rawurlencode('http://myfullwebsite.com/email/quote.php?fullname=Dan Smith&address=12 Main Street, London&emailaddress=dan#smith.com');
I have signed up to a synonym API.. see the details on this page
I am having trouble implementing this in my php code.
If I copy and paste the link into the web browser, I can see the results no problem.
Instead of typing the word in manually, I wish to have a variable in the link with the relevant word i.e. $variable_with_word_stored as shown below.
http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/xxxxxxxx/$variable_with_word_stored/php
//format could be php (I would unserialize)..or json..I could decode it?
Any ideas guys? Thanks.
It sounds like you mean you want the result from calling that webpage and store it in a variable. What you should be looking to do is sending a http get request to that page within the code.
Check out using curl with php, you can send a http request to your requested url, capture the result back and parse it through json_decode
http://php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php
try it like this, maybe that you dont need curl:
$key = "xxxxxxxx";
$word = "love";
echo file_get_contents("http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/$key/$word/php");
I want to get the content of another page. The background is that I wanted to make an AJAX request but due to the Same Origin Policy I cannot do this. Now I wanted to write an own PHP script on which I make the AJAX request. The URL looks like the following:
http://domain.com/subfolder/another_subfolder/index.php?id=1234&tx_manager_pi9[parameter]=1&tx_manager_pi9[category]=test&tx_manager_pi9[action]=getInfos&tx_manager_pi9[controller]=Finder&cHash=123456789001233455332
I tried it with fopen, curl and file_get_contents. Nothing from the works. The problem is if I put in the URL as string like
$results = file_get_contents('http://domain.com/subfolder/another_subfolder/index.php?id=1234&tx_manager_pi9[parameter]=1&tx_manager_pi9[category]=test&tx_manager_pi9[action]=getInfos&tx_manager_pi9[controller]=Finder&cHash=123456789001233455332');
it does work. If I put in a variable
$url = 'http://domain.com/subfolder/another_subfolder/index.php?id=1234&tx_manager_pi9[parameter]=1&tx_manager_pi9[category]=test&tx_manager_pi9[action]=getInfos&tx_manager_pi9[controller]=Finder&cHash=123456789001233455332';
$results = file_get_contents($url);
I come to a wrong page. With the specific parameter I get a result. If the parameter are not given correctly it seems that I come to a default page. I can't make a sense out of it.
The same for curl:
$curlSession = curl_init();
$options = array
(
CURLOPT_URL=>$url,
CURLOPT_HEADER=>false,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER=>true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION=>true
);
curl_setopt_array($curlSession,$options);
$results = curl_exec($curlSession);
This doesn't work. If I put in the URL as string and not as variable I get some results! I thought that the ampersand & or the square brackets [] are the problem but I cannot say this. & should be reserved and [] are no correct URL parameters. But why does the direct input work and not the variable?
I used the variable because I make some replacements with str_replace where I make the query more flexible.
I saw similar questions here (cURL function not working, curl_setopt doesnt work with url as a variable) but there was never posted a real solution.
You have a , instead of a ; in your second code block.
Are you required to be "logged in" to the site that you're visiting? That would explain why it's working in your browser and not through your server script.
If all else is the same, your browser and the PHP functions you listed should return the same results.
Could you provide the actual URL for us to test?
EDIT: Based on the URL you provided, it's working fine for me:
php > $test = file_get_contents("http://www.domain.com/user/user_neu/index.php?id=16518&tx_stusermanager_pi9%5Bindications%5D=1&tx_stusermanager_pi9%5Bcategory%5D=cure&tx_stusermanager_pi9%5Baction%5D=getHousesByIndications&tx_stusermanager_pi9%5Bcontroller%5D=HouseFinder&cHash=88230660f01ads34d73a199b82e976");
php > var_dump($test);
string(29) "16,15,14,13,12,11,17,19,22"
My problem was that I used an encoded URL as starting point. E.g.
http://domain.com/subfolder/another_subfolder/index.php?id=1234&tx_manager_pi9%5Bparameter%5D=%23%23%23param1%23%23%23&tx_manager_pi9%5Bcategory%5D=%23%23%23param2%23%23%23&tx_manager_pi9%5Baction%5D=getInfos&tx_manager_pi9%5Bcontroller%5D=Finder&cHash=123456789001233455332
I made a str_replace on a URL encoded string. Even using urldecode afterwards the URL was not correctly generated for curl, file_get_contents, ...
The correct URL should be something like this
http://domain.com/subfolder/another_subfolder/index.php?id=1234&tx_manager_pi9[parameter]=###param1###&tx_manager_pi9[category]=###param2###&&tx_manager_pi9[action]=getInfos&tx_manager_pi9[controller]=Finder&&cHash=123456789001233455332
i.e. without &, %23, %5B, %5D
I'm trying to retrieve an webpage that has XML data using file_get_contents().
$get_url_report = 'https://...'; // GET URL
$str = file_get_contents($get_url_report);
The problem is that file_get_contents gets only the secure content of the page and returns only some strings without the XML. In Windows IE, if I type in $get_url_report, it would warn it if I want to display everything. If I click yes, then it shows me the XML, which is what I want to store in $str. Any ideas on how to retrieve the XML data into a string from the webpage $get_url_report?
You should already be getting the pure XML if the URL is correct. If you're having trouble, perhaps the URL is expecting you to be logged in or something similar. Use a var_dump($str) and then view source on that page to see what you get back.
Either way, there is no magic way to get any linked content from the XML. All you would get is the XML itself and would need further PHP code to process and get any links/images/data from it.
Verify if openssl is enable on your php, a good exemple of how to do it:
How to get file_get_contents() to work with HTTPS?