I's interested in cURL in php since when Rashim was looking for something to get the yahoo weather feed as it is. He made it using cURL and I just loved it- amazed with versatile use of cURL.
I's looking for a way to get the all the statistics and searching facilities for expired or deleted domain names. And finally I decided to use cURL to search from some free service providers on the net although the usual approach I got is to store the names performing some scheduled search from who-is servers.
Anyway, here I'm gonna share all I've been playing with cURL :
Getting required html content from a website using cURL :
$url = "http://www.example.com/domains/detailedStatistics";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$curl_scraped_page = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$regex = '~~s';
preg_match($regex,$curl_scraped_page,$match);
//var_dump($match);
echo "Detailed domain statistics:";
echo "". $match[0]."";
?>
Searching on a website using cURL and parsing the html to get desired result:I used a html form to post input values to a searcher file. The code on the searcher file looked like :
//A Beautiful html dom parser
include('./simple_html_dom.php');
$cat = explode("?",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$url = "http://www.example.com/Domain_Name_Search_Results.aspx?".$cat[1];
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$curl_scraped_page = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// find all tabele tags with id=results
$html = str_get_html($curl_scraped_page);
$thetable = $html->find('table[class=BlackLeftRight]',0);
foreach($thetable->find('img') as $img)
{
$img->outertext = "";
}
echo "" ;
?>
That's it :) Happy curling then :)
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