PHP - Php Script To Receive Http Request From A Software?

I am testing a url for http post request. It connects to the site then it is disconnected. In fire fox it is giving error that the "connection was reset". In google chrome it is giving error that "Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data". Following is the script.

I am new to curl and also new to http request response. The provider of this site tells me that everything is ok and it is sending data but i am not getting any data or any header of this site.

<?php

$data = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Request><Source ClientID="test_xml" Password="1234" /><RequestDetails Language="En"><SearchHotelPriceRequest><ServiceDestination DestinationType="city" DestinationCode="477" /><ImmediateConfirmationOnly>1</ImmediateConfirmationOnly><PeriodOfStay><CheckInDate>2012-03-01</CheckInDate><Duration>3</Duration></PeriodOfStay><Rooms> <Room NumberOfRooms="1" NumberOfAdults="2" /> </Rooms></SearchHotelPriceRequest></RequestDetails></Request>';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://62.218.28.13:8443/monWebService/Request/v2');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
echo $data;
?>

Hey guys, every now and then some of my scripts that consistently access headers seem to fail to open the stream. I'm running about 1-50 of these shell scripts at once, but it doesn't seem to make a difference weather I have 1 or 50 scripts open at once. I was wondering if there was a way to tell PHP: Alright, so it failed to open the http stream, I want you to try again until it works. I just want it to try again until it works, because when it doesn't load certain headers, things go very wrong. Thanks.

Here's an example of the code where the problem occurs:
$Attack = file_get_contents($MobLink."attack?user_id=".$UserID."&target_id=".$TargetID."&auth_key=".$AuthKey);
xml_parse_into_struct($iP=xml_parser_create(), $Attack, $iS, $iX);xml_parser_free($iP);
echo "$i :.:.: ".strip_tags($iS[$iX['MESSAGE'][0]]['value'])." :.:.:\n\n";

Hello,
If i am not posting this question at right location then i apologize for it.

My problem is: I need to send HTTP get request to the webservice end point which must include the following http headers:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: apis.live.net
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: WRAP access_token=AuthToken (here AuthToken is the Access Token String)

Note: I am using OAuth for getting an access Token but for getting contents I need to send an HTTP get request.

Any kind of help will be appreciated.
Thanks

First thanks for any help that you can provide. I am somewhat new to PHP and this is the first "Web Service" I have had to create.

THE GOAL:
I need to pull XML data from another server. This company's API is setup so that you must give an IP and so you can only pull data from server to server instead of client to server. The data is pulled from the API using HTTP requests...very similar to YQL. (in essence the structured query is located in the URL).  This API also requires that my server only ping's their server every 10-15 mins, in order to cut down on server requests.

The logical thought in my head was to setup: a cron job to run a PHP script every 10 mins. The PHP scripts would then do the following:
1. Make the HTTP request
2. Open an existing file or create one (on my server)
3. Take the returned XML data from the API and write to the newly opened file.
4. Convert that XML to JSON.
5. Save the JSON
6. Cache the JSON file
7. STOP

My thought was to use curl and fopen for the first 3 steps. I found a basic script that will do this on PHP.net (as shown below). After that I am pretty much lost on how to proceed.


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<?php

$ch = curl_init("http://www.example.com/");
$fp = fopen("example_homepage.txt", "w");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>

I would REALLY appreciate any help on this. Also, if you have the time to please comment and explain what you are doing in any code examples and why....that would HELP out a lot. I truly want to learn not just grab a snippet and run. So, your comments are vital for me.

thank!!!

Hey! I am trying to get a database table of users but am running into the error:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://protege-ontology-editor-knowledge-acquisition-system.136.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&amp;user=68583) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 in get_user_from_parameter(nabble:utilities.naml:890) - <n.get_user_from_parameter.as_user_page.do/> - public v in C:\xampp\htdocs\website4js\stanford\loadUsernames.php on line 32

I have looked it up and it may be a security thing...The urls I am getting are http://protege-ontology-editor-knowledge-acquisition-system.136.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=68583 but the error adds an nodes&amp; part that screws it up. Any way around this?

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<?PHP
$maxPage = 0;
$mainPage = "http://protege-ontology-editor-knowledge-acquisition-system.136.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=app_people&node=136";
$mainContent = file_get_contents($mainPage);
$pattern = "/(?<=\"Page )\d\d+/";
preg_match_all($pattern, $mainContent, $pageNumb);

//find the max page
for($i=0;$i<sizeof($pageNumb[0]);$i++) {
if($pageNumb[0][$i] > $maxPage) {
$maxPage = $pageNumb[0][$i];
}
}
//echo('Max page is: '.$maxPage.'\n');

//Get an array of all the pages
$pages = array();
 for($i=1;$i<$maxPage;$i++) {
$pages[$i] = "http://protege-ontology-editor-knowledge-acquisition-system.136.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=app_people&node=136&i=".($i*20);
 }
//print_r($userPages);

//Get personal page urls and add to MySQL
mysql_connect("localhost" , "root") or die("Cant connect");
mysql_select_db("protegeusers") or die("Cant find database");
foreach($pages as $url) {
$urlContents = file_get_contents($url);
$pattern = "/http:\/\/protege-ontology-editor-knowledge-acquisition-system\.136\.n4\.nabble\.com\/template\/NamlServlet\.jtp\?macro=.+;user=\d+/";
preg_match_all($pattern, $urlContents, $personalPage);
foreach($personalPage as $user) {
for($i=0; $i<sizeof($user);$i++) {
[color=green]$userContents = file_get_contents($user[$i]);[/color]
$pattern1 = "/user\/SendEmail\.jtp\?type=user.+;user=\d+/";
$pattern2 = "/(?<=\">Send Email to ).+(?=<)/";
preg_match_all($pattern1, $userContents, $userEmail);
preg_match_all($pattern2, $userContents, $username);
[color=green]print_r($username);
print_r($email);[/color]
//$query = "INSERT INTO users (username, userurl) values ('$userName','$userUrl')";
//mysql_query($query);
}
}
}
?>

I am trying to figure how to code around this. I have a DOM scraper function that pulls urls from my database, opens the page, scrapes the data, and then moves onto the next URL to scrape. my issue is that if the page fails to load the script bombs and I have to restart it again. Trying to figure out how if the Code: [Select]
$html->find('div[class="itemHeader address"]') as $div fails to open the page it just skips the DOM inspection.

Here is my error...

Failed to open stream: HTTP Request failed.

Here is where I am at with my script....

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mysql_select_db("scraped") or die(mysql_error());
$result = mysql_query("SELECT PKEY, URL, HASSCRAPED, SHOULDSCRAPE FROM CRAWLED WHERE SHOULDSCRAPE ='1' AND HASSCRAPED = '0'") or die(mysql_error()); 

while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
mysql_query("UPDATE CRAWLED SET CRAWLED.HASSCRAPED =  '1' WHERE CRAWLED.URL = '" . $row['URL'] . "'");
$html = file_get_html($row['URL']);
foreach($html->find('div[class="itemHeader address"]') as $div) {
foreach($div->find('a') as $element){
$CleanData = CleanData($element->innertext);
if (strlen($CleanData[0]) > 5){
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO SCRAPED (ADDR1, CITY, STATE, ZIP, URL, DATE) VALUES ('" . $CleanData[0] . "','" . $CleanData[1] . "','" . $CleanData[2] . "','" . $CleanData[3] . "','". $row['URL'] . "','". date( 'Y-m-d H:i:s ' ) ."')");
        }
}
}

$html->clear();
unset($html);
unset($CleanData);
}

function CleanData($data) {
  $NewData = trim($data);
  $NewData = str_replace("<em>", "", $NewData);
  $AddrCityStateZip = explode("</em>",$NewData);
  $CityStateZip = explode(",",$AddrCityStateZip[1]);
  $StateZip = explode(' ',$CityStateZip[1]);
  $NewDataArray = array ($AddrCityStateZip[0], $CityStateZip[0], $StateZip[1], $StateZip[2]);
  return $NewDataArray;
  unset($NewData);
  unset($AddrCityStateZip);
  unset($CityStateZip);
  unset($StateZip);
}
mysql_close($link);
echo 'Scraping has compleated without error';

Hello!

I'm trying to understand exactly how http requests relate to a php script. 

1)  What would be considered a large amount?
2)  How can I see how many I have for a given page?

Thank you,

Eric

Hi, long story short a webhost has renewed my hosting for 12 months even though my auto renewal was OFF and I did not authorise a renewal, despite the fact I had not even used the hosting for ~8 months, so clearly I was not interested in renewing.. but they are money grabbing and are ignoring my emails and just copy and paste their "cancellation policy" which is ridiculous.

 

So seeing as they aren't cancelling my account, I want to make a PHP script to fully maximize the server resources. An infinite loop of whatever uses the most memory/cpu/network so they will CANCEL my account.

Can anyone help? What is the best way to waste/maximize/slow down a web server? I would appreciate any help.

 

Thanks!

Im working on a "Friend-request"-script, but something is wrong in my "answer"-script...

See the script below:

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    if (isset($_POST['submit_ansReq_answer'])) {
   
        $answer = $_POST['ansReq_what'];
        $uid= $_SESSION['userid'];
        $fid= $_POST['fid'];
       
       
        $db=friend_db;
        $dbname=bannaky_basic;
        include('config.php');
       
       
        ///////////// IF ACCEPTED
       
        if ($answer == "acceptReq") {
       
        $reqStat = "YES";
        $reqEcho = "Answered YES";
       
        }
   
        ///////////// ELSE IF DENIED
   
        else if ($answer == "denyReq") {
       
        $reqStat = "NO";
        $reqEcho = "Answered NO";
       
        }
       
        $query = "UPDATE $db SET req_accept='$reqStat' WHERE friend_id='$uid' AND user_id='$fid'";
           
            mysql_query($query);
           
           
            echo "$reqEcho";

If the user hits the Accept-button, everything works fine and is registered in the SQL database. But when hitting the Deny-button nothing happens... I get to the page and $regEcho works, but $reqStat=NO; wont save in the SQL database...

Probably a simple solution to this that im not seeing.... Please help me out before i loose my mind.

You would think the answer would be all over the Internet and easy to find, but it’s not. I have searched many times, and in all the multitude of search results I have still never found an adequate usable answer. The MOST you ever find is someone saying how easy it is with PHP, but they don’t tell you how, even when the person they are answering asks them (odd). You can be that one in a billion person who finally answers it for real and helps someone out.

I have a simple HTML form with data fields first_name, last_name, email, phone, country, a few hidden inputs, and a single submit button, like so:

(Please note: the method is GET, not Post.)

<form action="https://MyDomainOnMyServer.com/MyPHPScript.php”> 
<input type="text" name="first_name" value="" />
<input type="text" name="last_name" value="" /> 
<input type="text" name="email" value="" /> 
<input type="text" name="phone" value="" /> 
<input type="hidden" name="type" value="type123"> 
<input type="hidden" name="project" value="new123"> 
<select required name="country"> 
<option value="">Choose your country</option> 
<option value="US">United States</option> 
<option value="CA">Canada</option> 
<option value="GB">United Kingdom</option> 
<option value="Many More">Many More Countries</option> 
</select> 
<input type="submit" value="Submit Form" /> </form>

NOTE: Originally, the form action would have been:

action="https://TheirExampleDomainOnTheirRemoteServer.com/TheirRemotePHPScript.php" name="form1234"

Upon clicking the single submit button only, what I need to have happen is this:

1. Send me an email to whatever@whatever.tld containing all the form submission data

2. Place the form submission data into a MySQL database having the corresponding data fields

3. Send the form submission contents including the hidden input values to "https://TheirExampleDomainOnTheirRemoteServer.com/TheirRemotePHPScript.php" name="form1234" AS IF that had remained set as the original form action to begin with

So basically what I’m trying to obtain is the cleanest possible PHP script that will do those three things, which is essentially what others have asked for over the years in search results I have found, but no one has ever provided it in a clear instance that works. If I can just see such a script, I should be able to see how it works and then do what I need. Thanks.

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Doing something wrong, but don't see it.  How should one retrieve a POST parameter?  My $request->toArray()['html'] works, but I am sure it is not the "right way".

<?php
namespace App\DataPersister;
use ApiPlatform\Core\DataPersister\DataPersisterInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RequestStack;

class ArchivePersister implements DataPersisterInterface
{
    public function __construct(RequestStack $requestStack)
    {
        $request = $requestStack->getCurrentRequest();
        syslog(LOG_ERR, '$request->getMethod(): '.$request->getMethod());
        syslog(LOG_ERR, '$request->getContent(): '.$request->getContent());
        syslog(LOG_ERR, '$request->request->get(html): '.$request->request->get('html'));
        syslog(LOG_ERR, '$request->query->get(html): '.$request->query->get('html'));
        syslog(LOG_ERR, '$request->get(html): '.$request->get('html'));
        syslog(LOG_ERR, '$request->toArray(): '.json_encode($request->toArray()));
        syslog(LOG_ERR, '$request->toArray()[html]: '.$request->toArray()['html']);
    }
}

output

$request->getMethod(): POST
$request->getContent(): {"project":"/projects/1","description":"","html":"<p>{{ project_name }}</p>"}
$request->request->get(html):
$request->query->get(html):
$request->get(html):
$request->toArray(): {"project":"\/projects\/1","description":"","html":"<p>{{ project_name }}<\/p>"}
$request->toArray()[html]: <p>{{ project_name }}</p>

Trying to run a simple program that, when submitted, stores the username and password as cookies.  When clicking Submit, I get the error  "HTTP Error 405 - The HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed". If the username and password fields are left blank when submitting it's suppose to give a message to enter a username and password, but, I still get that error message.

HTML form:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Week 1 Project--Cookies</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />


</head>

<body>
<form action="cookie1.php" method="post">
<h2 align="center">Cookies</h2>

<br />
<div>
<p>Enter your username and password and click "Submit":</p><br />
<p>Username:<input type="text" name="username" size="20"></p>
<p>Password:<input type="text" name="password" size="20"></p>
</div>
<br />
<div><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></div>
<br />
<div>
<input type="reset" name="Reset" value="Start Over" />
</div>

</form>



</body>
</html>


PHP file:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Cookie File</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body>
<div>
<?php
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
 setcookie('username', $_POST['username'], time() + 2592000);
 setcookie('password', $_POST['password'], time() + 2592000);
}
if(($_POST['username'] == "") || ($_POST['password'] == "")) {
print "You must enter both a username and password. Press the Back button on your browser and try again.";
}
else if (isset($_COOKIE['username'])) {
print "Welcome, " .$_COOKIE['username'];
}
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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