Would love to see some examples on getting remote webpage content with drupal http request. I have plenty of examples easily with Google with curl, but yet to find one with this drupal function.
Also, would CURL be better for getting remote content?
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First, you can read the documentation about drupal_http_request() its pretty well documented and it will help you.
But for simple application, you can just do it like that.
<?php
$result = drupal_http_request('http://google.com/');
if (in_array( $result->code, array(200, 304))) {
// Use $result->data for the content
}
else {
// Error $result->code
}
// Also you can see all content from $result with
// if you had installed Devel Module and enable it
// dsm($result)
// or simply like that drupal_set_message('<pre>' . print_r($result, 1) . '</pre>');
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Much appreciated. I am part of the copy and paste generation :) Prefer that to long docs :P Commented Oct 6, 2011 at 7:49
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2The 'long docs' is what makes Drupal usable in the first place. You have 2 paragraphs explaining function definition and parameters, after that links to 14 code examples using that particular function, this is not long documentation friend. With all the ton of respect I have for SO, it is not a replacement for proper documentation. Much more info for you to digest in the docs, and you can be sure it's the real deal, for about the same amount of time. ( My 2 cents. ) SO is precious to me when the docs are unclear, or there is a void ... ;) Commented Dec 17, 2011 at 9:33
You could also try using the Webclient module (for D7). Here is a quote about it (from the module's project page):
This is a library module. It provides no out of the box functionality other then providing an API that other modules can use.
The Webclient API is seperated into three major components:
- Webclient
- Webclient Formatters
- Webclient Proxy
All of the above components were translated to seperate modules so that developers can create a dependency with the functionality they need.
Im using this code without any problem.
$base_url = 'http://route to Ws';
$data = array(
'key' => 'foo';
'mail' => $mail,
);
$data = drupal_json_encode($data);
$options = array(
'headers' => array(
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
),
'method' => 'POST',
'data' => $data
);
$response = drupal_http_request($base_url, $options);
$data = json_decode($response->data);
// Check if login was successful
if ($response->status == 'valid' {
return TRUE;
}