Search Engine Script question

Hello, first let me say that I think the search engine script is a great tool and I enjoy using it on my test and development servers.

However, my problem lies in the fact that my ISP Host for our website has the allow_url_fopen setting turned off for 'security reasons'. Therefore I am unable to use the script as it is.

Is there another function or option that I can use to modify the script to get it to work correctly? I have been informed that I might want to try using the curl function. Is that possible or am I SOL (sh*t out of luck).

thanks,
scoyle74

 

Thanks, I was hoping it might be possible. I am fairly new to PHP and was wondering if someone could look at the code that I have modified. It is not working correctly, I keep getting curl_setopt and fget errors. I am probably missing the obvious in trying to change the code.

If I don't use the feof and fget options and simply echo the curl_exec I get the results. It seems I might have to modify the way the results are returned as well but I am not sure.


code:

<?

$ch = curl_init("http://search.digitalpoint.com/?q=");
$fp = fopen("http://search.digitalpoint.com/?q=" . urlencode ($q) . "&key=" . urlencode ($key) . "&site=" . urlencode ($site) . "&start=" . min (990, $start), "r");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$curl_exec = curl_exec($ch);

while (!feof ($curl_exec) && $curl_exec) {
		$line .= fgets ($curl_exec, 1024);
	}
curl_close($ch);

fclose($fp);

?>

PHP:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Scott

 

Sorry, I posted the incorrect code for you to look at.

$url = "http://search.digitalpoint.com?q=";
$ch = curl_init($url);
$fp = fopen($url . urlencode ($q) . "&key=" . urlencode ($key) . "&site=" . urlencode ($site) . "&start=" . min (990, $start), "r");

fpassthru ($fp);
// that line makes cgi act like module

//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$curl_exec = curl_exec($ch);

//while (!feof ($curl_exec) && $curl_exec) { 
//        $line .= fgets ($curl_exec, 1024); 
//    }
	
//fclose($fp);
curl_close($ch);

echo "curl_exec: $curl_exec<br>";

PHP:

When I run the code, the results I get are

When I uncomment the while loop to break up the results I get the fgets and feof errors.

 

Shawn, thanks for all the help. I got it to work, the code is below:

$ch = curl_init("http://search.digitalpoint.com/?q=" . urlencode ($q) . "&key=" . urlencode ($key) . "&site=" . urlencode ($site) . "&start=" . min (990, $start));
$fp = @fopen("http://search.digitalpoint.com/?q=" . urlencode ($q) . "&key=" . urlencode ($key) . "&site=" . urlencode ($site) . "&start=" . min (990, $start), "r");

//fpassthru ($fp);
// that line makes cgi act like module

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$curl_exec = curl_exec($ch);

while (!feof ($fp) && $fp) {
		$line .= fgets ($fp, 1024);
	}
curl_close($ch);

fclose($fp);

PHP:

Thanks again, for all your help.
Scott