phpGetURL ( theURL )

Get data from the web

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Mark DeNyse - Show more from this author
Driftwood Interactive
http://DriftwoodInteractive.com

Sample input:

phpGetURL("http://www.google.com")

Sample output:

(contents of the data from the specified URL)

Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)

//
// phpGetURL(theURL)
//
// Retrieve the HTML of the specified URL.
//
Let (
  [
    $theURL = theURL;

    phpCode = "error_reporting(0); //E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);¶
    ¶
    $creq = curl_init();¶
    curl_setopt($creq, CURLOPT_URL, fm_evaluate('$theURL'));¶
    curl_exec($creq);¶
    ¶
    if (curl_errno($creq))¶
      print curl_error($creq);¶
    else¶
      curl_close($creq);¶
    "
  ] ;
  PHP_Execute(phpCode)
)

Returns the data from the specified URL.

Requires the SmartPill PHP plug-in from Scodigo.

Comments

		Peter Hayman, Raleigh Oct 11, 2010
I get an error on PHP_Execute(phpCode). Function cannot be found.

		Mark DeNyse, Driftwood Interactive Oct 11, 2010
Peter, Are you sure you have the SmartPill plug-in installed? Check your Preferences dialog -> Plug-Ins tab to verify that one of "PHP", "PHP_Intel", "PHP_68k" is listed.

		Peter Hayman, Raleigh Oct 11, 2010
Thanks, Mark for the quick response. We don't have it. Looks like I would need to purchase the plugin from SmartPill. I'll look into it. Thanks again, Peter

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phpGetURL ( theURL )

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