GETURL()

From Lianjapedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Purpose

Function to talk with HTTP web servers and consume data provided by web services

Syntax

GETURL(<expC1> [, <expN> [, <expO> | <array> [, expC2>]]])

See Also

AT(), ATNEXT(), FCLOSE(), FCREATE(), FERROR(), FGETS(), FILETOSTR(), FOPEN(), FPUTS(), FREAD(), FREADSTR(), FWRITE(), ISSERVER(), JSON_DECODE_FILE(), POSTURL(), SUBSTR(), STUFF(), STR(), STREXTRACT(), STRTOFILE(), STRTRAN(), STRZERO(), TRIM(), XML_DECODE_FILE()

Description

The GETURL() function is used to talk with HTTP web servers and consume data provided by web services.

For HTTPS and FTP operations, see Web Integration and the NetworkRequest class.

Parameter Description Example
<expC1> Fully qualified URI "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=twitterapi&rpp=1"
<expN> The timeout in seconds for the request (default 30). Set this to 0 for no timeout. 30
<expO> |
<array>
An object or dynamic array containing the HTTP header elements headers = array()
headers[] = "Host: search.twitter.com"
headers[] = "Authentication: Basic " + base64_encode("username:password")
<expC2> Name of file in which to store data "myfilename.json"

Example

filename = geturl("http://www.myserver.com/getsomepage.rsp?name=smith&month=10", 30, array(), "myfilename.json")
if len(filename) = 0
    // no data was returned
endif