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Rewrote shell_exec(curl...) to PHP5 cURL function

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* Added HISTORY file
* Bumped to version 0.2
* Updated README with PHP5 cURL module
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Jack-Benny Persson 2014-07-31 13:37:07 +02:00
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0.1 - 2014-07-28
First release of wie
0.2 - 2014-07-31
Changed 'shell_exec(curl -s $URL)' to PHP5 cURL function
Added HISTORY file

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./wie.php --help
## Requirements ##
The script requires PHP5 and the PHP5 cURL module (php5-curl on Debian systems).
## Thanks ##
Many thanks goes to flinga who came up with the idea for this script, please see
the THANKS file for more information.

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$progName = $argv[0];
function usage()
{
print "Wikipedia ingress extractor (wie), version 0.1\n";
print "Wikipedia ingress extractor (wie), version 0.2\n";
print "Usage: $GLOBALS[progName] [--lang=sv] article\n";
print "Default language if none specified is $GLOBALS[defaultLang].\n";
print "Remember to quote the article if there's more than one word,\n";
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$article = ucwords($article); // uppercase article
$article = preg_replace("/\s/", "_" ,$article); // make spaces to underscore
$url = "http://$lang.wikipedia.org/wiki/$article";
$data = shell_exec("curl -s $url"); // retrive the page
// get the wiki page
$ch = curl_init("$url");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
preg_match("/\<p\>(.*)\<\/p\>/", $data, $match); // fetch text inside first <p>
// check is we had a match