fetchurl - is this a phpFunction - guess no

bernard_hinault

hello all

first of - a question: : $output = fetchURL($url);
this does not exist in PHP - does it? i can t belive this. I really can not believe that this function exists in php,

Background; i want to include the amazon web services script - it is written in perl and i want to inlcude the output in a very very simple site. How to do that.

http://mrrat.com/aws/

http://www.absolutefreebies.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7960025

first of - this is a very very great script - i really like it!!!

i grabbed the script and have put it to my server. i did not need to make any changes to the script since i have the perl. the Perl-interpreter on my server is located here #!/usr/bin/perl so i was very luck - since i did not have to edit any line to the code. i have put APF to the server. But it resites in a special folder:

/myDomain [that here is my domain]
/cgi-scripts/apf4 [here the sript resides]

and now i have to include the APF4 somehow into the site. otherwise it won´t work for me

i cannot type [url]http://[/url][yourdomain_here]/cgi-bin/apf/amazon_products_feed.cgi into my browser and see results, since the cgi-scripts do reside in another folder my domain. here is the overall-structure:

home/wwwall/WWW/domain 1
home/wwwall/WWW/domain 2
home/wwwall/WWW/domain 3
home/wwwall/WWW/cgi-scripts/apf4 [here the sript resides]

so it is not possible to t type [url]http://[/url][yourdomain_here]/cgi-bin/apf/amazon_products_feed.cgi
to see first results. - i cannot do that since the APF does not reside in the same folder. Unless i do not change this here on my server i am not able to get the results. Please help here.

home/wwwall/WWW/domain 1
home/wwwall/WWW/domain 2
home/wwwall/WWW/domain 3
home/wwwall/WWW/cgi-scripts/apf4 [here the sript resides]

so i think that i have to create a file that lies in home/wwwall/WWW/domain 1

in this file i include the apf4 - is this what i can imagine:


<?php 

$url = "/cgi-scripts/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi"; 
$output = fetchURL($url); 

echo $output; ?>

but now the question: $output = fetchURL($url);
this does not exist in PHP - does it? i can t belive this. I really can not believe that this function exists in php,

pleae advice -

many thanks for your help here -
this is a very greatsite.

bernard_hinault,

btw; it's farily common to have the cgi-bin outside of the public_html folder, So it is at my server.

but if my server is setup correctly, i should still be able to access it via mysite.com/

But NOTE: i can not write mysite.com/cgi-bin/whatever.cgi. or can i - since the cgi-folder resides somewhere else - but not in the domains - see above

RossC0

Check out fopen and fsocketopen they should do what you need..

Weedpacket

Or [man]file_get_contents[/man]. You may also want to check out Appendix L on [man]wrappers[/man].

bernard_hinault

hello you both

thanks for the answers.

i checked out fopen and fsocketopen they should do what i need..
http://www.php.net/file_get_contents

and i saw at file_get_contents -- Reads entire file into a string
i checked out fopen and fsocketopen they should do what i need..
http://www.php.net/file_get_contents

and i saw at file_get_contents -- Reads entire file into a string

see the above mentioned problem:

can i solve it with this code;

<?

$fopen = "/cgi-scripts/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi";
$output = file_get_contents($url);

echo $; ?>

i look forward to your answer.

thanks for all you did for me

mille grazie

bernard_hinault

Weedpacket

Well, if you want to load an HTTP resource, you'll need to use an HTTP URL - a plain file name isn't going to do it (if you read Appendix L, you'll see that "/cgi-scripts...." basically gets a "file://" scheme tacked on the front.

If you need to send information to the script via GET then that's just a plain old URL fragment same as any other. file_get_contents() uses GET to request the resource, so if you want to POST instead, then fsockopen() et al. is lower level but gives that added level of control.

The [man]cURL[/man] extension may be a bit heavyweight for your purposes, but if it's already installed you could think of using it instead.