cURL help

I made a pagerank checker, some of you may know it ... anyway I have a problem which I can`t figure it out ...

The alexa function is this:

function getAlexaRank () {
            $url = $this->url['host'];
            $url = "http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=s&url=$url";
            $data = $this->getPage($url);
            preg_match('#<POPULARITY URL="(.*?)" TEXT="([0-9]+){1,}"/>#si', $data, $p);
            $value = ($p[2]) ? number_format($this->toInt($p[2])) : 0;
            return $value;
        }

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This worked about one month and now is not working anymore.

Now, I used the var_dump(htmlentities($data)) command and it shows me this:

string(466) "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ALEXA VER="0.9" URL="alexa.com/" HOME="0" AID="="> <RLS TITLE="Related Links" PREFIX="http://" more ="0"> <RL HREF="xslt.alexa.com/blocker?tag=Ujmccxavvjjajpjvj=0000000000000&amp;ref=data.alexa.com/" TITLE="Please click here to continue using Alexa"/> </RLS> </ALEXA> "

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Someone told me that Alexa detects that I want to abuse their service and that is why it is not working anymore.

The only solution to work is to make a cURL array of proxies ... the only problem is that i never used that because i didn`t need it so far.

Can someone give me a good starting point ?

Thank you!

 

To put it simply - just check the cURL section of the PHP website.

As for the proxy portion check the curl_setopt() function with the CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL option.

If you need further help ask .

 

Thank you, I will try ...

 

I made a curl syntax ... the only thing is that I don`t know how to integrate it with my current function ...

This is the code:

<?php
$proxyip = array(
 '87.234.234.68:80',
// '203.178.133.11:3124',
// '192.38.109.144:3128',
);

$randp = rand(0, 1);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxyip[$randp]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=s&url=$url');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>

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This is the alexa function:

function getAlexaRank () {
            $url = $this->url['host'];
            $url = "http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&dat=s&url=$url";
            $data = $this->getPage($url);
            preg_match('#<POPULARITY URL="(.*?)" TEXT="([0-9]+){1,}"/>#si', $data, $p);
            $value = ($p[2]) ? number_format($this->toInt($p[2])) : 0;
            return $value;
        }

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Can someone please help me ?

 

anyone ?

 

doesn`t matter anymore ... i made it!