User:Jor3l Boa/PHP/n2k.php

PHP Based name2Key service.

n2k.php: <php> // PHP name2Key by Jor3l Boa // ------------------------- // Released under Creative Commons 3.0 // - support+n2k@sltools.biz // -------------------------

       function getPage($web) {

$html = ""; $ch = curl_init($web); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5); $html = curl_exec($ch); if(curl_errno($ch)) { $html = ""; } curl_close ($ch); return $html; }

       function getBetween($content,$start,$end){

//by Jor3l :) $a1 = strrpos($content,$start); $content = substr($content,$a1 + (strlen($start)),strlen($content)); while($a2 = strrpos($content,$end)) { $content = substr($content,0,$a2); } return $content; }

function name2Key($name) { $SL_SEARCH = 'http://search.secondlife.com/client_search.php?session=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&q='; $sName = split(' ',$name); $data = getPage($SL_SEARCH.$sName[0].'%2520'.$sName[1]); $uuid = getBetween($data,'secondlife:///app/agent/','/about'); return $uuid; }

</php>

example: <php> <? require_once('n2k.php'); $uuid = name2key('FirstName LastName'); echo $uuid; ?> </php>

NOTE ON HOSTING PROVIDERS: Some hosting providers, notably GoDaddy, do not allow outbound traffic from their servers. If you find that this script returns nothing, no matter what you try, that may be your issue. The only fix is to switch providers to one that does allow outbound traffic.

For a version that does not require hosting, see also: Name2Key_in_LSL