cURL

[dcool86]

Hello,

I'm trying to check if a website has a piece of code on it. The code is below.

<!-- BEGIN TEST CODE -->

I want to see if that is in the source code. If it is it will echo yes if not it will echo no.


Thank you

[dcool86]

What will be the quickest and most reliable way of doing that to. Thank you

[brotherhood of LAN]

Do you need a method to fetch the page or a method to match the string?

strpos [php.net] is good for the comparison

PHP has support for cURL [php.net] and there are examples on that page.

[dcool86]

I was wondering if you could put together a code to look for

<!-- BEGIN TEST CODE -->


What I have written/tried doesn't work.


Thank you

[dcool86]

This is what I have so far

$ch = curl_init("http://www.example.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$text = curl_exec($ch);
$test = strpos($text, "<!-- BEGIN TEST CODE -->");
if ($test==false)
{
echo "yes";
}else{
echo "no";
}

I'm always getting a yes on any page even the one that has

<!-- BEGIN TEST CODE -->

what am I'm doing wrong?

[dcool86]

i got it to work but it doesn't seem to work on certain domains. Thanks

[lostdreamer]

if(checkSite("http://www.google.nl"))
 echo "Found";
else echo "not Found";

function checkSite($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$text = curl_exec($ch);
$test = strpos($text, "<!-- BEGIN TEST CODE -->");
if ($test === false)
 return false;
else return true;
}

With strpos you should allways do a strict comparison ( === instead of == )

If the text would start with the text you are searching for, strpos will return 0 (since the search text starts at char 0)

if 0 == false returns TRUE
if 0 === false returns FALSE

This just might be why you script fails
On top of that, in your above script, the If Else logic is the wrong way around ;)

Regards,
LostDreamer

[dcool86]

Thank you