[PHP]Using Curl with DOMDocument

LazyManc

LazyManc

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Is it possible to get around remote files being unavailable using Curl?

My webhost have turned off allow_url_fopen so I can't use a DOMDocument->load() directly, but is it possible to get the data using curl and then using the core DOM functions to grab the result as an XML object?
 
PHP: 
<?php

$cURL = curl_init('http://site.com/');
curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML(curl_exec($cURL));

?>

Should work.
 
Yep, that'll work, or for a pure PHP (and therefore more portable) solution try using Snoopy.

Code: 
require_once 'snoopy.php';
$snoopy = new snoopy;
$snoopy->fetch('http://foo.com/');

$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($snoopy->results);
 
Cheers guys, i'll give it a try tomorrow.

Just out of interest is having allow_url_fopen turned on a massive security threat? I think it's on by default on most PHP installs?
 
LazyManc said:
Cheers guys, i'll give it a try tomorrow.

Just out of interest is having allow_url_fopen turned on a massive security threat? I think it's on by default on most PHP installs?
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Only if you code with bad security on your scripts.
 
Beansprout said:
Of which there are commonly zillions running on a typical shared hosting environment :(
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I use suPHP, gives PHP to my unix user account and no one elses. Im on a shared host but no one can get near my scripts because PHP runs under my user. Other users PHP cant even access my scripts.
 
Jaffa_Cake said:
I use suPHP, gives PHP to my unix user account and no one elses. Im on a shared host but no one can get near my scripts because PHP runs under my user. Other users PHP cant even access my scripts.
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Doesn't matter, you (or any other use) could still be hit by your/their own scripts (infact even more so with suphp) :)

'tis a pain :(
 
I've never used the XML features of PHP before, so could someone give me a quick run through of how to grab stuff please? I've tried the example at http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=8 but childNodes doesn't seem to be returning anything.

Code: 
<?php
	$xmlString = 
	'<Voucher>
		<VoucherID>1234567</VoucherID>
		<VoucherCode>ABCDEFGHIJKLM</VoucherCode>
	</Voucher>';
	
	$Dom->loadXML($xmlString);
	
	$voucher = $Dom->getElementsByTagName('Voucher');

	
?>

In the above example, how do I get VoucherID or VoucherCode values to assign to php vars?
 
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