[CLI]Urban Dictionary

[rangerguy39]

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<?PHP
fwrite(STDOUT, "Enter a word to look up: ");
$term = fgets(STDIN);

if(!$term) {
die('Error: Enter a word to look up!');


$s = file_get_contents("http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=".urlencode($term)."");
if(strpos($s, "isnt defined")) {
die("Definition not found");
}
else {
preg_match("/<p>(.*?)<\/p>/",$s, $match);
echo html_entity_decode(strip_tags($match[0]));
}

?>

only use it in the CLI

[slushpuppy]

It's quite rare to get such scripts that are run locally, nice job

[Dragon]

does this work on http://localhost/ ?
cause it just gave me an error

[Zanith]

You will have to type at the command prompt

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php /path/to/script.php

[Dragon]

im still getting unexpected $end line 18

[Zanith]

Untested but its missing a bracket.

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<?PHP
fwrite(STDOUT, "Enter a word to look up: ");
$term = fgets(STDIN);

if(!$term) {
die('Error: Enter a word to look up!');


$s = file_get_contents("http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=".urlencode($term)."");
if(strpos($s, "isnt defined")) {
die("Definition not found");
}
else {
preg_match("/<p>(.*?)<\/p>/",$s, $match);
echo html_entity_decode(strip_tags($match[0]));
}
}
?>

[Dragon]

it worked... more or less... it didnt return anything... but not returning any errors and its asking for a word to look up

[rangerguy39]

Untested but its missing a bracket.

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<?PHP
fwrite(STDOUT, "Enter a word to look up: ");
$term = fgets(STDIN);

if(!$term) {
die('Error: Enter a word to look up!');


$s = file_get_contents("http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=".urlencode($term)."");
if(strpos($s, "isnt defined")) {
die("Definition not found");
}
else {
preg_match("/<p>(.*?)<\/p>/",$s, $match);
echo html_entity_decode(strip_tags($match[0]));
}
}
?>

sorry, sometimes when I copy something, I miss the last line

[Jonpopnycorn]

Your code can't search, because it's only searching when $term is NULL, and when it's NULL it ends up using the die message.

Heres a working version

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<?PHP
   fwrite(STDOUT, "Enter a word to look up: ");
   $term = fgets(STDIN);
   if(!$term)
   {
      echo "Error: Enter a word to look up!";
   }
   else
   {
      $s = file_get_contents("http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=".urlencode($term)."");
      if(strpos($s, "isnt defined"))
      {
         echo "Definition not found";
      }
      else
      {
         preg_match("/<p>(.*?)<\/p>/",$s, $match);
         echo html_entity_decode(strip_tags($match[0]));
      }
   }
?>