Remove Resource ID from cURL post

[Dubz]

I have the following cURL post function i just whipped up after googling around a little. I haven't used cURL before so please assist me in making the function better if you can :P

PHP Code:

function post2($url, $data){
    $postCount = count(explode('&',$data));
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, $postCount);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    print($ch);
    sleep(120);
} 


The problem I'm having is after echoing the $ch variable it says 'Resource id #something'. How can I get it to remove this without stripping the last so many characters (the number seems to vary)? Also, what is stored inside the $ch array? I tried print_r to it but theirs so much content it's hard to see.

[jmj001]

try this one

PHP Code:

function curl_post($url,$postData){
    if(!isset($timeout))
        $timeout=30;
    $curl = curl_init();
     if(isset($referer)){
        curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
    }
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)');
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
        array("Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"));
    $html = curl_exec ($curl);
    curl_close ($curl);
    return $html;
} 


run it using

PHP Code:

$url = "http://www.google.com";
$postData = "field1=abc&field2=xyz"
echo curl_post($url,$postData); 


i've hacked a couple of my specific setting out, hopefully it doesn't break it

[Dubz]

Thanks, the function you posted seems to work smoothly, so far. THe other thing I need is the original post function that I'm replacing returned an array set up with the header, content, and status. This is the post function below (to help add the other parts in if possible)

PHP Code:

    function post($url, $data, $ref = "") {
        $url = parse_url($url);
        $http = fsockopen($url['host'], 80, $en, $es, 45);
        if($http) {
            fputs($http, "POST ".$url['path']." HTTP/1.1\r\n");
            fputs($http, "Host: ".$url['host']."\r\n");
            if($ref != "") { fputs($http, "Referer: ".$ref."\r\n"); }
            fputs($http, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
            fputs($http, "Content-length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n");
            fputs($http, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
            fputs($http, $data);
            while(!feof($http)&&!is_bool($http)) {
                @$result .= fgets($http, 128);
            }
        } else {
            return array(
                "status" => "error",
                "error" => "(".$en.") ".$es
            );
        }
        fclose($http);
        $result = explode("\r\n\r\n", $result, 2);
        $header = (isset($result[0])) ? $result[0] : false;
        $content = (isset($result[1])) ? $result[1] : false;
        return array(
            "status" => "ok",
            "header" => $header,
            "content" => $content
        );
    } 


[tangoforce]

Originally Posted by Dubz

The problem I'm having is after echoing the $ch variable it says 'Resource id #something'. How can I get it to remove this without stripping the last so many characters (the number seems to vary)? Also, what is stored inside the $ch array? I tried print_r to it but theirs so much content it's hard to see.

Thats because $ch is a resource HANDLE. It isn't a string, array or any other item that can be printed to the screen. It's the same principle as a mysql resource.