using fsockopen

dcjones

Hi All,

I am submitting post on this subject and I am etting replies but the replies are not mush help, I am new'ish to php.

I need to connect to a service which is on a web server in the US.

I have tried a number of way but the results are not so good.

The script works but what I am trying to do is to display the resulting content in a html table. All that happen now is the result is displayed as a line of text.

How can I build in a table which can contain my own headers and footers.

I am not 100% sure what all the parts of the script do but I think that the "echo $str;" displays the result.

I hope the above is clear, please if you can help.

The script I am using is below

Regards

Dereck

<?php

$text = "I have a dog.";

translate($text, "en", "de"); //translated "i have a dog" from English to French
exit;

function translate($text, $srclang, $trglang)
{
$request = "GET /S301.1/api?wl_data=";
#must always urlencode parameter values that contain whitespace or other special characters
$request .= urlencode($text);
$request .= "&wl_errorstyle=1";
$request .= "&wl_srclang=$srclang&wl_trglang=$trglang&wl_password=mypassword HTTP/1.1\n";
$request .= "Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1\n";
$request .= "Host: www.mydomain.com\n";
$request .= "Connection: Keep-Alive\n\n";

    $server = "www.mydomain.com";
    $port = 80;
    $socket = fsockopen($server, $port, &$errno, &$errstr);
    fwrite($socket, $request);
    echo "<html><body><pre>";
    while (!feof($socket))
    {
            $str = fgets($socket, 99999);
            echo $str;
    }

    fclose($socket);
    echo "</pre></body></html>";
    print("\n");

}

tomwerner

it is possible, you will need to change the layout of the table to suit your needs. try replacing echo $str with the following:

print("<TABLE><TR><TD>This is my heading</TD></TR><TR><TD>{$str}</TD></TR></TABLE>");

Becuase the variable $str is in curly braces it will get parsed instead of just having $str in the printed string.

I hope this is what you were trying to achieve.

dcjones

Hi and thanks for your reply.

I have tried your script and the results, well below are the results:

This is my heading HTTP/1.1 200 This is my heading Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:06:13 GMT This is my heading Server: Apache This is my heading Set-Cookie: Worldlingo.com=212.227.119.39.1069344373573972; path=/; expires=Tue, 18-Nov-08 16:06:13 GMT This is my heading Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=D8C27442D2D70CA8B94D6A6566A1249A.tc4; Path=/ This is my heading X-WL-ERRORCODE: 26 This is my heading Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 This is my heading Content-Length: 13 This is my heading Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 This is my heading Connection: Keep-Alive This is my heading This is my heading I have a dog.

It there a way I can extrct the contents of the wl_data variable and place it in the table without all the other information.

Regards

Dereck

tomwerner

does a similar output get given every time? then the following should work;


$pieces = explode(":", $str);

$count = count($pieces)

$usefultext = $pieces["$count"];

put the code above before this;

print("<TABLE><TR><TD>This is my heading</TD></TR><TR><TD>{$str}</TD></TR></TABLE>");

and change $str in the above text to $usefultext

What is happening is PHP is taking $str, splitting it up using the : as a guide, the useful piece of text comes after the last colon in the code you gave me and this is put along with all the others into an array. $usefultext is a reference to the last element in the $pieces array (the translated text) . It should work, but I haven't tried it.

dcjones

Hi,

I have inserted the orther part of the script:
This is the full script I am useing:

<?php

$text = "Academy Online Translations.";

translate($text, "en", "ja");
exit;

function translate($text, $srclang, $trglang)
{
$request = "GET /S301.1/api?wl_data=";
#must always urlencode parameter values that contain whitespace or other special characters
$request .= urlencode($text);
$request .= "&wl_errorstyle=1";
$request .= "&wl_srclang=$srclang&wl_trglang=$trglang&wl_password=wl1life1 HTTP/1.1\n";
$request .= "Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1\n";
$request .= "Host: www.worldlingo.com\n";
$request .= "Connection: Keep-Alive\n\n";

    $server = "www.worldlingo.com";
    $port = 80;
    $socket = fsockopen($server, $port, &$errno, &$errstr);
    fwrite($socket, $request);
    echo "<html><body><pre>";
	        while (!feof($socket))
    {
            $str = fgets($socket, 999999);
			$pieces = explode(":", $str); 

			$count = count($pieces); 

			$usefultext = $pieces["$count"];
            print("<TABLE width=\"100%\"><TR><TD width=\"100%\">{$usefultext}</TD></TR></TABLE>");

    }

    fclose($socket);

	echo "</body></html>";
    print("\n");

}

When I run the script the result displays a blank screen.

Any idea what is going on. If you don't have time to look at this post I will understand.

The account details are only for testing.

Many thanks for all your help.

Keepsafe and well, regards

Dereck

tomwerner

try moving this:

$pieces = explode(":", $str); 

$count = count($pieces); 

$usefultext = $pieces["$count"]; 
print("<TABLE width=\"100%\"><TR><TD width=\"100%\">{$usefultext}</TD></TR></TABLE>");

out of the while loop , the end of the loop is indicated by the } after the above code. so change it to :

fwrite($socket, $request); 
echo "<html><body><pre>"; 
while (!feof($socket)) 
{ 
$str = fgets($socket, 999999); 
} 

$pieces = explode(":", $str); 

$count = count($pieces); 

$usefultext = $pieces["$count"]; 
print("<TABLE width=\"100%\"><TR><TD width=\"100%\">{$usefultext}</TD></TR></TABLE>"); 

fclose($socket);

If that doesn't reveal anything then try this near the bottom of the script (not on the while loop):

var_dump($pieces);

This will print at the bottom of the page the contents of that array. The last index should be the text we want. If it is OK then I can investigate other possibilities...

If this doesn't reveal anything put a copy of the source given out by Internet Explorer (Right Click on page, View Source) onto this post.

dcjones

Hi,

This is the complete script:

<?php

$text = "Academy Online Translations.";

translate($text, "en", "ja");
exit;

function translate($text, $srclang, $trglang)
{
$request = "GET /S301.1/api?wl_data=";
#must always urlencode parameter values that contain whitespace or other special characters
$request .= urlencode($text);
$request .= "&wl_errorstyle=1";
$request .= "&wl_srclang=$srclang&wl_trglang=$trglang&wl_password=wl1life1 HTTP/1.1\n";
$request .= "Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1\n";
$request .= "Host: www.worldlingo.com\n";
$request .= "Connection: Keep-Alive\n\n";

    $server = "www.worldlingo.com";
    $port = 80;
    $socket = fsockopen($server, $port, &$errno, &$errstr);
   fwrite($socket, $request);  
	echo "<html><body><pre>";  
	while (!feof($socket))  
	{  
	$str = fgets($socket, 999999);  
	}  

	$pieces = explode(":", $str);  

	$count = count($pieces);  

	$usefultext = $pieces["$count"]; 

	print("<TABLE width=\"100%\"><TR><TD width=\"100%\">{$usefultext}</TD></TR></TABLE>");  

	fclose($socket);

	var_dump($pieces);

	echo "</body></html>";
    print("\n");

}

This is the browsers source code after running the script.

array(1) {
[0]=>
string(0) ""
}

Many thanks again.

Dereck

dcjones

Hi, tom

I am 99% there with my script a little more help and I (we) can make it work.

This is the code I have:

$server = "www.worldlingo.com";
$port = 80;
$socket = fsockopen($server, $port, &$errno, &$errstr);
fwrite($socket, $request);

while (!feof($socket))
{
$str = fgets($socket, 99999);

			echo "<table width=\"80%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">";

			echo "<tr>";
			echo "<textarea name=\"results\" cols=\"90\" rows=\"20\" wrap=\"VIRTUAL\" id=\"results\">($str)</textarea>";

The only problem I have is the output places each line of data in a different textarea. resulting in multi-textareas.

How can I make all the output go into one single textarea. Is this possible. I hope you can and have time to help me with this.

Many thanks in advance

Keep safe and well

Dereck