help pls on taking url value

[shotokan99]

hi,

i have this situation:

i will pass a url to a certain site and this site will dynamically
generate a new url. my issue i want to that new url and assign it to
my string variable. how to do this?

tnx

[mypetprogrammer]

On Jun 5, 1:56 am, shotokan99 <[e-mail]:

hi,

i have this situation:

i will pass a url to a certain site and this site will dynamically
generate a new url. my issue i want to that new url and assign it to
my string variable. how to do this?

tnx

If you're sending it via GET, just use the htmlspecialchars();
function to make it acceptable in a url, then send it across. When you
get it out in the new page, you'll have your URL.

~A!

[shotokan99]

actually this is how i did it:

1. i have a textbox for the user to encode the url
2. by $_POST['x'] ill evaluate the url if valid or not using
file_get_contents().
if(!file_get_contents($x){
// do actions here..
}

however i dont know if what is wrong, file_get_contents() works
perfectly on
my local machine but upon loading to our webserver, it doesn't work
at all.

3. the next action is to $x as param value 'http://www.my...com?url='.
$x.
now this url will then dynamically produce another url. and that
new url is
the one that i want to get and assigned it to a string.

but i want all process to be totally invisible to the user. because
after
successfully getting the new url i post a message like your new url
is ...

is this possible? how to do this?

[Rik]

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:39:38 +0200, shotokan99 <so**********@yahoo.com>
wrote:

actually this is how i did it:

1. i have a textbox for the user to encode the url
2. by $_POST['x'] ill evaluate the url if valid or not using
file_get_contents().
if(!file_get_contents($x){
// do actions here..
}

however i dont know if what is wrong, file_get_contents() works
perfectly on
my local machine but upon loading to our webserver, it doesn't work
at all.

allow_url_fopen enabled at home and disabled on the server?

Also, I'd just do a HEAD request using fsockopen(), unless you really need
the contents of the site in question.
--
Rik Wasmus

[shotokan99]

actully i dont need to really get the contents. all i wanted to do is
to find out if it is a valid url or not. the contents doesnt matter to
me.

regarding my next question on getting the url? how to do it?