PHP: Multi Curl using Methods from some Library instead of URLs? - php

Question

This is probably a stupid question, but I'm just wondering if this is possible or if I'm supposed to do something else...
When using multi-curl one would use URLs right?
// create both cURL resources
$ch1 = curl_init();
$ch2 = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_URL, "http://lxr.php.net/");
curl_setopt($ch1, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.php.net/");
curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
etc..
Per the multi-curl document...
So what if I have some method (I think thats what you call it) that I'm using from a library
$tags = $instagram->searchTags( 'tag' );
Now thats searching the library of the word tag. But what if I want to be able to do multiple searches,
$tags1 = $instagram->searchTags( 'tag' );
$tags2 = $instagram->searchTags( 'tagme' );
How do I implement this into multi curl? Is it just simply replacing the URLs with $tags1 and tags2?

Answer 1

This is without your class, dont see why you need that.
function fetchHTML($website) {
if(function_exists('curl_init')) {
$ch = curl_init($website);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
} else {
$content = file_get_contents($website)
}
return $content;
}
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML(fetchHTML("http://example1.com"));
$tag1 = $dom->getElementsByTagName('tagname');
$dom->loadHTML(fetchHTML("http://example2.com"));
$tag2 = $dom->getElementsByTagName('tagname');
/* Will give you a DOM object list with your first tagname */
print_r($tag1);
/* Will give you a DOM object list with your second tagname */
print_r($tag2);

Answer 2

I have looked into that PHP library anh found that each instance of the Instagram class use only one cURL handler, which leads to the fact that you cannot send multiple request asynchronously.
You can read this article about connection Sharing with CURL in PHP to get the idea of modify the CurlClient class of the Instagram library. The main idea here is keep a static class member which hold a handler from curl_multi_init() and add each new cURL single handler to it when you need.