Question

I am trying to verify a Minecraft username is paid or not.

By typing in the username at the end of the URL, it returns true or false.

$input = 'Notch';

  function checkPlayer($player) {
    $mcURL = 'http://www.minecraft.net/haspaid.jsp?user=';
    $auth = file_get_contents($mcURL . $player);
    if ($auth === true) {
      echo $player. ' is valid';
    } else {
      echo $player. ' is not valid';
    }
  }

  checkPlayer($input);

But it doesn’t return true. By going to the page http://www.minecraft.net/haspaid.jsp?user=Notch, it does return true. How do I properly check? I think file_get_contents is the wrong function to use for this matter. I’m not sure though.

Answer 1

change this line :

if ($auth === true) {

with

if (trim($auth) == "true") {