GETURL()
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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 |
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<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