quick php question?

[comeplay]

Does this make any sense to any of you?

1. I have a PHP site - it loads all pages referencing < head.inc.php >

2. I need a curl feature to include in the < head.inc.php > file that performs 1 of 2 things.

Step 1 - downloads a webpage that contains YES or NO only from a different server and based on the results either:

(a) result = yes (does nothing - page loads as normal)
(b) result = no (forwards the user to a different website address)

[Why]

yes it makes sense, what do you want to know about it?

[Deej]

of course, its all about if echoing....

[Hell House Vic]

it makes sense. so what's the question?

[Why]

lets see if it will let me write it in here... but you dont need curl at all.

$url = "url";
$result = file ($url);
if($result = "yes"){
 echo "yes";
}else{
 echo "no";
}

that should work, or something along those lines.

[Why]

$url = "url";
$result = file ($url);
if($result && $result[0] == "yes"){
 echo "yes";
}else{
 echo "no";
}

sorry, that is better. my bad.

but that would only work if fopen is allowed to get URLs, if not then you still need curl

[GrouchyAdmin]

This whole design is absolutely atrocious and going to cause not only latency through this major bottleneck, but one hell of a point of failure.

If you use file(), or cURL, set a reasonable timeout value.

[Hell House Vic]

why - he'll need curl since the page is on a different server as is a script not a flat file.