Comments on: 21 Incredibly Useful Things You Can Do With cURL and PHP http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/ This is the home of Addy Osmani (Web Developer, Designer & Author). Here you can find some great tips and tutorials on everything to do with web development and even a few useful code samples! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:17:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dipanjan http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1553 Dipanjan Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:59:14 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-1553 curl_exec($ch); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id='.$id); $page = curl_exec($ch); $profile_pic=substr($page,strpos($page,'http://profile.'),(strpos($page,'class="p"')-strpos($page,'http://profile.'))-2); echo '<img src="'.$profile_pic.'" width="50">'; Thanx for your code. Please let me know if there is a better solution</img> curl_exec($ch);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id='.$id);
$page = curl_exec($ch);
$profile_pic=substr($page,strpos($page,'http://profile.'),(strpos($page,'class="p"')-strpos($page,'http://profile.'))-2);
echo '<img src="'.$profile_pic.'" width="50">';
Thanx for your code. Please let me know if there is a better solution

]]> By: Dipanjan http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1554 Dipanjan Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:59:06 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-1554 I have done this: $login_email = XXXXXXXXX; $login_pass = 'XXXXXXXXXXX'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://login.facebook.com/login.php?m&next=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fhome.php'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'email='.urlencode($login_email).'&pass='.urlencode($login_pass).'&login=Login'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "my_cookies.txt"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "my_cookies.txt"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3"); I have done this:
$login_email = XXXXXXXXX;
$login_pass = 'XXXXXXXXXXX';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://login.facebook.com/login.php?m&amp;next=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fhome.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'email='.urlencode($login_email).'&pass='.urlencode($login_pass).'&login=Login');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "my_cookies.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "my_cookies.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3");

]]> By: Addy http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1551 Addy Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:15:46 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-1551 Thank you! Thank you!

]]> By: Addy http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1552 Addy Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:15:34 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-1552 It depends on what you're trying to do. If you're only interested in the thumbnail (and not a higher res version) you should just be able to load in the URL to their friend profile directly and use regular expressions to extract the URL to their friend image. That said, it might just be easier for you to try doing this via the Facebook API as they have methods for grabbing friend images fairly painlessly. It depends on what you're trying to do. If you're only interested in the thumbnail (and not a higher res version) you should just be able to load in the URL to their friend profile directly and use regular expressions to extract the URL to their friend image. That said, it might just be easier for you to try doing this via the Facebook API as they have methods for grabbing friend images fairly painlessly.

]]> By: Addy http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1548 Addy Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:14:10 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-1548 I've been personally using the Official API for all Facebook related things for a while now, but if you're interested in some alternative code for achieving this via CURL, here's a nice little snippet from Snipplr <a href="http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-facebook-status-with-php/" target="_blank">http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-faceb...</a> I've been personally using the Official API for all Facebook related things for a while now, but if you're interested in some alternative code for achieving this via CURL, here's a nice little snippet from Snipplr http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-faceb...

]]> By: Addy http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1549 Addy Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:14:10 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-1549 I've been personally using the Official API for all Facebook related things for a while now, but if you're interested in some alternative code for achieving this via CURL, here's a nice little snippet from Snipplr <a href="http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-facebook-status-with-php/" target="_blank">http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-faceb...</a> I've been personally using the Official API for all Facebook related things for a while now, but if you're interested in some alternative code for achieving this via CURL, here's a nice little snippet from Snipplr http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-faceb...

]]> By: Addy http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1550 Addy Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:14:10 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-1550 I've been personally using the Official API for all Facebook related things for a while now, but if you're interested in some alternative code for achieving this via CURL, here's a nice little snippet from Snipplr <a href="http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-facebook-status-with-php/" target="_blank">http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-faceb...</a> I've been personally using the Official API for all Facebook related things for a while now, but if you're interested in some alternative code for achieving this via CURL, here's a nice little snippet from Snipplr http://snipplr.com/view/29070/how-to-change-faceb...

]]> By: Dipanjan http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1547 Dipanjan Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:06:02 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-1547 How to fetch friend image after logging in facebook or myspace or orkut using curl? How to fetch friend image after logging in facebook or myspace or orkut using curl?

]]> By: omar http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-903 omar Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:22:03 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-903 I believe the facebook update one is the really old version which doesn't work anymore I believe the facebook update one is the really old version which doesn't work anymore

]]> By: Daniel http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/comment-page-1/#comment-863 Daniel Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:25:10 +0000 http://addyosmani.com/blog/21-incredibly-useful-things-you-can-do-with-curl-and-php/#comment-863 Really nice! Really nice!

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