Wget output

Anon

Hello

I have this problem. I need to read the output of a wget execute. My code works with standard functions like 'ls' but not with wget. Also if I try to do this: "wget http://www.phpbuilder.com > outfile", the outfile will stay zero bytes. So you can imagine it will not work with a popen() either. I've tried timeouts and > stdout but non of this works. Does anybody recognize my problem?

Tnx,

Lobo.

crazney

thats not how wget works

wget gets the file, and saves it locally.

wget http://yahoo.com/

would save "index.html" as a local file in the current directory..

but you can also play around with some cool functoins inbuilt into php which do this kinda thing for you, - i cant remember there exact names

Anon

I know that, but I the link I want to get is a link that redirects to an other page. I want to know what the URL of that page is. Wget is perfect for that. I could do a wget --spider link and I see the link I want to have on my screen. But now I have to have it in my php code. But how? So I really need the output of wget.

I think I'm gonna try a workaround.

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how do you execute wget from your php script?

Anon

Sorry, I gave up.. I did a work-around like this: /usr/bin/wget --spider -l0 --output-file=/tmp/tmpfile $URL then I would do a if (!file_exists("/tmp/tmpfile")) sleep(1); then read the file and last but not least trhow away the file.. This works.. but it still sux 🙂

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did you try

$output=wget bla;
echo $output;

Anon

Although I already 'fixed' the problem. I did try it just now and it did not work, a 'ls' did work.

Anon

It looks like wget returns it's download report using stderr. You need to do something like the following to redirect stderr to stdout:

$fp = popen("wget http://www.phpbuilder.com 2>&1", "r");
while ( $buffer=fgets($fp, 512) ) {
echo "$buffer";
}