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Blogger · #1 24th-July-2008, 09:01 PM

Hey

I'm trying to do a little scraper type thing but need a bit of help..

This is my code...

php Code:

function tinyurl($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://tinyurl.com/create.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"url=" . $url . "");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
preg_match('/

(.*?)
/', $result, $matches);
echo '';
print_r($matches);
curl_close($ch);
}

The problem I have is when I use...

php Code:

tinyurl($url);

The actual tinyurl page gets returned, I know thats the $result = curl_exec($ch); line but $result isn't even being echoed so how can I stop that?

Secondly, the regex doesn't work. That's part of the code on the page and within that I want to grab the URL but I can't seem to get it working.

Could someone kindly help me fix these errors please, thanks

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CURL & Regex Help Needed

CURL & Regex Help Needed