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Asked: 2026-05-23T02:55:23+00:00

So from my understanding this should be fairly simple as I should only need

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So from my understanding this should be fairly simple as I should only need to change the original fileget contents code, and the rest of the script should still work? I have commented out the old file get contents and added the curl below.

after changing from file get contents to cURL the code below does not output 

    //$data = @file_get_contents("http://www.city-data.com/city/".$cityActualURL."-".$stateActualURL.".html");
//$data = file_get_contents("http://www.city-data.com/city/Geneva-Illinois.html");

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();
$url= "http://www.city-data.com/city/".$cityActualURL."-".$stateActualURL.".html";
//echo "$url<br>";
 $ch = curl_init();
  $timeout = 5;
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
//echo $data;

$details = str_replace("\n", "", $data);
$details = str_replace("\r", "", $details);


$detailsBlock = <<<HTML
~<div style='clear:both;'></div><br/><b>(.*?) on our <a href='http://www.city-data.com/top2/toplists2.html'>top lists</a>: </b><ul style='margin:10px;'>(.*?)<div style='bp_bindex'>~
HTML;

$detailsBlock2 = <<<HTML
~<br/><br/><b>(.*?) on our <a href='http://www.city-data.com/top2/toplists2.html'>top lists</a>: </b><ul style='margin:10px;'>(.*?)</ul></td>~
HTML;

$detailsBlock3 = <<<HTML
~<div style='clear:both;'></div><br/><b>(.*?) on our <a href='http://www.city-data.com/top2/toplists2.html'>top lists</a>: </b><ul style='margin:10px;'>(.*?)</ul></td>~
HTML;

preg_match($detailsBlock, $details, $matches);
preg_match($detailsBlock2, $details, $matches2);
preg_match($detailsBlock3, $details, $matches3);

if (isset($matches[2]))
{
    $facts = "<ul style='margin:10px;'>".$matches[2];
}

elseif (isset($matches2[2]))
{
    $facts = "<ul style='margin:10px;'>".$matches2[2];
}

elseif (isset($matches3[2]))
{
    $facts = "<ul style='margin:10px;'>".$matches3[2];
}

else
{
    $facts = "More Information to Come...";
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you have a problem with your script you need to debug it. For example:

    $data = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($data); die();

    Then you will get an output what $data is. Depending on the output you can further decide where to look next for the cause of the malfunction.

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