I want to get the content of another page. The background is that I wanted to make an AJAX request but due to the Same Origin Policy I cannot do this. Now I wanted to write an own PHP script on which I make the AJAX request. The URL looks like the following:
I tried it with fopen, curl and file_get_contents. Nothing from the works. The problem is if I put in the URL as string like
$results = file_get_contents('http://domain.com/subfolder/another_subfolder/index.php?id=1234&tx_manager_pi9[parameter]=1&tx_manager_pi9[category]=test&tx_manager_pi9[action]=getInfos&tx_manager_pi9[controller]=Finder&cHash=123456789001233455332');
it does work. If I put in a variable
$url = 'http://domain.com/subfolder/another_subfolder/index.php?id=1234&tx_manager_pi9[parameter]=1&tx_manager_pi9[category]=test&tx_manager_pi9[action]=getInfos&tx_manager_pi9[controller]=Finder&cHash=123456789001233455332';
$results = file_get_contents($url);
I come to a wrong page. With the specific parameter I get a result. If the parameter are not given correctly it seems that I come to a default page. I can't make a sense out of it.
The same for curl:
$curlSession = curl_init();
$options = array
(
CURLOPT_URL=>$url,
CURLOPT_HEADER=>false,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER=>true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION=>true
);
curl_setopt_array($curlSession,$options);
$results = curl_exec($curlSession);
This doesn't work. If I put in the URL as string and not as variable I get some results! I thought that the ampersand & or the square brackets [] are the problem but I cannot say this. & should be reserved and [] are no correct URL parameters. But why does the direct input work and not the variable?
I used the variable because I make some replacements with str_replace where I make the query more flexible.
I saw similar questions here (cURL function not working, curl_setopt doesnt work with url as a variable) but there was never posted a real solution.
