Getting page with fopen - PHP

On Thursday 25 April 2002 16:39, Martin Thoma wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to find out on which rank my side is at google automatically.
> I'm trying the following code, but I get a strange error:
>
> $Url = "http://www.google.de/search?q=MySearchWord"; // Gives "Warning:
> No error on line [where fopen is]"
> $Url = "http://www.google.de/"; // Works
>
> for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i += 10)
> { $fp = fopen($Url, "r");
> while($fp && !feof($fp))
> { $sLine .= fgets($fp, 4096);
> }
> ... do some further things with $sLine
> fclose($fp);
> }
>
> How can I get more information about the error occuring? "Warning: No
> error" is not much information...

Google is probably trying to send you a cookie in which case you cannot use
fopen. You need to use curl or snoopy(?).

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> Google is probably trying to send you a cookie in which case you cannot use
> fopen. You need to use curl or snoopy(?).

Thanx, that could be the problem. Unfortunatly, curl is not compiled in my
php-version, and what is snoopy?! ;-) Any other ideas/examples?

Martin

Ah, it works with fsockopen:

$fp = fsockopen ("www.google.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp)
{ print "Fehler: $errstr ($errno)\n";
}
else
{ fputs ($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $Url\r\n\r\n");
while (!feof($fp))
{ $sLine .= fgets ($fp, 4096);
}
}
fclose ($fp);

At 25.04.2002 11:01, you wrote:
>
> > Google is probably trying to send you a cookie in which case you cannot use
> > fopen. You need to use curl or snoopy(?).
>
>Thanx, that could be the problem. Unfortunatly, curl is not compiled in my
>php-version, and what is snoopy?! ;-) Any other ideas/examples?
>
>Martin
snoopy is a class which lets you fetch pages from the web, like you want to do.
It supports cookies,https and some other stuff useful for fetching pages
from the
web. Look at sourceforge to get the latest release. This is one of my
favours ;-)
Oliver