The following link outputs a different image every time you visit it:
http://www.biglickmedia.com/art/random/index.php
From a web browser, you can obviously right click it and save what you see. But if I were to visit this link from a command line (like through python+mechanize), how would I save the image that would output? So basically, I need a command-line method to imitate right clicking and saving the image after initially visiting the site from a web browser.
I can already use iMacro to do this, but I'd like a more elegant method. What can I use to accomplish this? Thanks!
you might need something that creates a socket to the server and then issues a http GET request for "art/random/index.php". save the payload from the HTTP response, and then you have your data
what you would be creating is a simple HTTP client
the unix command wget does this:
$ wget http://www.biglickmedia.com/art/random/index.php
<?php
file_put_contents('C:\\random.gif', file_get_contents('http://www.biglickmedia.com/art/random/index.php'));
?>
With Python and mechanize:
import mechanize
b = mechanize.Browser()
t = b.open(url)
image_type = t.info().typeheader # mime-type of image
data = t.read() #bytes of image
open(filename, 'wb').write(data)
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My problem is I need to fetch FOOBAR2000's title because that including information of playing file, so I create a execute file via Win32 API(GetWindowText(), EnumWindows()) and it's working good.
TCHAR SearchText[MAX_LOADSTRING] = _T("foobar2000");
BOOL CALLBACK WorkerProc(HWND hwnd, LPARAM lParam)
{
TCHAR buffer[MAX_TITLESTRING];
GetWindowText(hwnd, buffer, MAX_TITLESTRING);
if(_tcsstr(buffer, SearchText))
{
// find it output something
}
return TRUE;
}
EnumWindows(WorkerProc, NULL);
Output would look like "album artis title .... [foobar2000 v1.1.5]"
I created a php file like test.php, and use exec() to execute it.
exec("foobar.exe");
then in console(cmd) I use command to execute it
php test.php
It's working good too, same output like before.
Now I use browser(firefox) to call this php file(test.php), strange things happened.
The output only foobar2000 v1.1.5, others information gone ...
I think maybe is exec() problem? priority or some limitation, so I use C# to create a COM Object and register it, and rewrite php code
$mydll = new COM("FOOBAR_COMObject.FOOBAR_Class");
echo $mydll->GetFooBarTitle();
still same result, command line OK, but browser Fail.
My question is
Why have 2 different output between command line and browser. I can't figure it out.
How can I get correct output via browser.
or there is a easy way to fetch FOOBAR2000's title?
Does anyone have experience on this problem?
== 2012/11/28 edited ==
follow Enno's opinion, I modify http_control plug-in to add filename info, original json info is "track title".
modify as following
state.cpp line 380 add 1 line
+pb_helper1 = pfc::string_filename(pb_item_ptr->get_path());
pb_helper1x = xml_friendly_string(pb_helper1);
# 1: when firefox opens the php and it gets executed, it the context depends on the user which runs the php-container (apache), this is quite different from the commandline call which gets executed in your context
# 2 and 3: there seems to be more than one way for getting the title: use the foobar-sdk and create a module which simply reads the current title per api, then write your result in an static-html-document inside your http-root-folder OR use the http-client inside the sdk, with it, you do not need a wabserver, even better use a already implemented module: for instance foo_upnp or foo-httpcontrol
Good luck!
If your webserver runs as a service, in windows you need to enable "allow desktop interaction" for the service. Your php script runs as a child of the webserver process when requested via browser.
I wish to write the response of hitting a given url into the href attribute of an anchor tag using PHP. How can I do this?
Here's an example of what I excpect to happen
mylink.com/getdoc?name=documentA
returns a string as a response:
mylink.com/document2012-03-15.pdf
I need to write this response (using PHP into the href attribute as shown below:
Open Document A
(so the above will be the final source of my page.
I think there are a few ways to do what you want. Not all of them will work exactly as you ask for, but the end result should be the same.
Solution one
My first possible solution was already posted by #shanethehat. You could use file_get_contents to call your PHP script via HTTP and get the response.
Solution two
Another possible solution was suggested in the comments of the post by #YourCommonSense. You could simply include the getdoc script in the PHP script that is generating your HTML file, like this:
$_GET["name"] = "documentA";
echo " Open Document A ";
Solution three
Or you could change the way the getdoc script works. You could use a script more like this:
header("Content-type:application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition:attachment; filename=\"{$_GET["name"]}\"");
readfile($_GET["name"]);
And you keep your link like this: Open Document A . When getdoc.php is called, it will get the specified file and start a file download.
NOTE: you should probably do some input sanitization with this method (removing slashes, making sure the file ends in .pdf, etc) to make sure someone doesn't try to get a file they're not allowed to get.
That's all I'm coming up with at the moment. There might be a more clever way to do it, but hopefully one of these solutions will do it for you. I would try solution 2 or 3 first, and if they don't work out for you, then go with solution 1.
<?php
//get output from URL
$myfile = file_get_contents('http://mylink.com/getdoc?name=documentA');
?>
Open Document A
How to write response to file using php
Noway.
PHP do not process HTTP requests.
You have to set up your web server to do the rewrite.
There are 100500 questions under mod_rewrite tag, you will find the solution easily.
Note that you may wish to rewrite your url to /getdoc.php?name=document2012-03-15.pdf, not one you mentioned in your question
I need to execute a script within php, i tried almost everything..
http://bulksms.mysmsmantra.com:8080/WebSMS/SMSAPI.jsp?username=user&password=******&sendername=Vfup&mobileno= '.$f.' &message='.$message1.''
I tried java script, but i $f and $message1 are variables, so i cant use echo twice
Is there any function in php, which automatically opens the above link in a new window and i need the remaining part of the php code to execute normally without being affected. Will provide more details if required..
Regards,
PHP executes on the server, so is not capable of opening windows. If you want this to happen on the client side you will have to echo it out as JavaScript that the browser can execute.
If you're trying to get this alternate process to fire, then you might want to just call file_get_contents from your current script:
file_get_contents('http://bulksms.mysmsmantra.com:8080/WebSMS/SMSAPI.jsp?'.
'username=user&password=******&sendername=Vfup&mobileno= '.$f.
'&message='.$message1.'');
When file_get_contents is given a URL, it will load all of the data from that URL into a local string. This means, in this case, that the server will do what you are trying to get the browser to do for you.
If that is not sufficient, then you will need to use the js function window.open and pass it that URL:
<script>window.open("<?php echo $url; ?>");</script>
Can I programmatically upload a file to the server (without client's interference) ? I know this is not possible in normal (.html) files. Is there anyway I can do it from .hta file? or any server side or plug-gin solution?
from an HTA, you can use the shell object to run commands just as if you were running from the command line - including FTP - but of course you'll need FTP credentials. since you said you'll be able to hardcode the files to be uploaded, i assume you have full access...
var shell = new ActiveXObject('wscript.shell');
var params = // this should be a string of ftp commands, like OPEN ftp.example.com USER PASS CWD somedir PUT c:\whatever.txt BYE
shell.run("%comspec% /c ftp.exe -i -s:" + params, 1, true);
Short answer is no.
It may be possible on some machines using a signed java applet - but from the wording of the question, that's going to be a very long juorney for you.
Based on your last comment, you might atleast need the user to load a web page. So based on an onload function, you can use an ajax hidden form to submit whatever files that you'd want to.
But getting information from your user without their knowledge might put you in a legal situation.
Good luck!!
I have a small problem, I want to load data from a PHP file and put them on a DIV.
Here's the Jquery code
// Store the username in a variable
var jq_username = $("#txt_checkuser").val();
// Prepare the link variable
var link = 'user.php?action=check&username=' + jq_username;
$('div #checkuser_hint').load(link);
So it works! but instead of loading the result (compiled PHP) it loads the PHP code.
If I write the long URL "http://localhost/project..." it doesn't load anything!
Any idea how to do that?
I think you might be accessing your javascript file as a file on your local filesystem, a request to the same directory would go through the filesystem and not through your webserver, processing the PHP into the desired output. This also explains why http://localhost/project for the AJAX call doesn't work: Javascript might be enforcing the same-origin policy on you.
Verify that you're actually accessing this javascript file through http://localhost/ (as opposed to something like file://C:/My PHP Files/ ).
Does the page return anything when you use your browser?
Are you sure it should not be 'div#checkuser_hint' instead of 'div #checkuser_hint' ?
And this looks like the correct way according to the documentation.
var link = 'user.php';
$('div#checkuser_hint').load(link, {'action':'check', 'username':jq_username});
Are you able to access the script manually on your own? (try accessing it via your browser: htp://localhost/...) It may be the case that you're missing your opening <?php and/or closing ?> in the script-file itself.