This class can be used to retrieve daily comic strips from comic sites.
It can access given comic site pages and retrieve comic strip image URLs.
Alternatively it can return the URLs of the same comic images from content delivery network Web servers to not cause much load to the main comic sites.
comicloader.php
It can access given comic site pages and retrieve comic strip image URLs.
Alternatively it can return the URLs of the same comic images from content delivery network Web servers to not cause much load to the main comic sites.
comicloader.php
Code:
<?
/**
* This class can fetch daily comic strips for a given set of comics from comics.com and gocomics.com
* This class is a part of gopsop, the localized twitter for bangla speakers at http://beta.gopsop.com
*
* @author Hasin Hayder
* @since Mar 30, 2008
* @copyright New BSD License
*
* @example
* $cl = new ComicLoader()
* $nancy = $cl->getComicUrl("nancy");
* echo "Today's Nancy <br/><img src='{$nancy}' />";
*/
class ComicLoader
{
/**
* list of comics
*
* @var array
*/
private $comics = array(
"dilbert"=>"http://dilbert.com",
"lila"=>1,
"floandfriends"=>1,
"agnes"=>1,
"momma"=>1,
"claireday"=>1,
"dogeat"=>1,
"dinetteset"=>1,
"herbnjamaal"=>1,
"onebighappy"=>1,
"pickles"=>"http://www.comics.com/wash/pickles/index.html",
"zack"=>1,
"girls"=>1,
"liberty"=>1,
"pcnpixels"=>"http://www.comics.com/wash/pcnpixel/index.html",
"wizardofid"=>1,
"heathcliff"=>1,
"44unionavenue"=>2,
"9to5"=>2,
"adamathome"=>2,
"agnes"=>2,
"andycapp"=>2,
"animalcrackers"=>2,
"annie"=>2,
"theargylesweater"=>2,
"askshagg"=>2,
"bc"=>2,
"badreporter"=>2,
"baldo"=>2,
"ballardstreet"=>2,
"bigtop"=>2,
"biographic"=>2,
"bleeker"=>2,
"bloomcounty"=>2,
"bonanas"=>2,
"bobthesquirrel"=>2,
"boondocks"=>2,
"bottomliners"=>2,
"boundandgagged"=>2,
"brainwaves"=>2,
"brendastarr"=>2,
"brewsterrockit"=>2,
"broomhilda"=>2,
"calvinandhobbes"=>2,
"candorville"=>2,
"cathy"=>2,
"citizendog"=>2,
"thecity"=>2,
"clearbluewater"=>2,
"cleats"=>2,
"closetohome"=>2,
"cornered"=>2,
"deepcover"=>2,
"dicktracy"=>2,
"dinetteset"=>2,
"dogeatdoug"=>2,
"domesticabuse"=>2,
"doodles"=>2,
"doonesbury"=>2,
"duplex"=>2,
"theelderberries"=>2,
"thefifthwave"=>2,
"flightdeck"=>2,
"floandfriends"=>2,
"theflyingmccoys"=>2,
"forbetterorforworse"=>2,
"foxtrot"=>2,
"foxtrotclassics"=>2,
"fredbasset"=>2,
"frogapplause"=>2,
"thefuscobrothers"=>2,
"garfield"=>2,
"gasolinealley"=>2,
"gilthorp"=>2,
"gingermeggs"=>2,
"heartofthecity"=>2,
"heathcliff"=>2,
"herbandjamaal"=>2,
"housebroken"=>2,
"hubertandabby"=>2,
"idiotbox"=>2,
"inthebleachers"=>2,
"inkpen"=>2,
"thekchronicles"=>2,
"kudzu"=>2,
"lacucaracha"=>2,
"libertymeadows"=>2,
"lio"=>2,
"looseparts"=>2,
"lostsheep"=>2,
"luckycow"=>2,
"meaningoflila"=>2,
"themiddletons"=>2,
"minimumsecurity"=>2,
"naturalselection"=>2,
"nestheads"=>2,
"neurotica"=>2,
"nonsequitur"=>2,
"thenorm"=>2,
"onaclaireday"=>2,
"onebighappy"=>2,
"opus"=>2,
"theothercoast"=>2,
"outofthegenepool"=>2,
"overboard"=>2,
"pickles"=>2,
"thepinkpanther"=>2,
"pluggers"=>2,
"poochcafe"=>2,
"popculture"=>2,
"preteena"=>2,
"pricklycity"=>2,
"thequigmans"=>2,
"reallifeadventures"=>2,
"redandrover"=>2,
"redmeat"=>2,
"reynoldsunwrapped"=>2,
"ronaldinhogaucho"=>2,
"rubes"=>2,
"shoe"=>2,
"shoecabbage"=>2,
"slowpoke"=>2,
"smallworld"=>2,
"spaceistheplace"=>2,
"speedbump"=>2,
"stateoftheunion"=>2,
"stonesoup"=>2,
"strangebrew"=>2,
"suttonimpact"=>2,
"sylvia"=>2,
"tankmcnamara"=>2,
"teenagemutantninjaturtles"=>2,
"thickandthin"=>2,
"tinysepuku"=>2,
"tomthedancingbug"=>2,
"toomuchcoffeeman"=>2,
"trevor"=>2,
"watchyourhead"=>2,
"waylay"=>2,
"weepals"=>2,
"winniethepooh"=>2,
"wizardofid"=>2,
"workingitout"=>2,
"yenny"=>2,
"zackhill"=>2,
"ziggy"=>2
);
/**
* Retrieve url of the daily comic strip for a given comic name.
* You can also use Coral CDN by setting second parameter to true and
* reduce the load on the service provider
*
* @param string $comic
* @param boolean $usecdn
* @return string
*/
public function getComicUrl($comic,$usecdn=true){
//error_reporting(E_ALL);
if (!array_key_exists($comic, $this->comics))
$this->comics[$comic]=0;
if (array_key_exists($comic, $this->comics))
{
$value = $this->comics[$comic];
switch ($value)
{
case "0":
$url = "http://comics.com/comics/{$comic}/index.html";
break;
case "1":
$url = "http://comics.com/creators/{$comic}/index.html";
break;
case "2":
$url = "http://www.gocomics.com/{$comic}/";
break;
default:
$url = $value;
}
$comiccontent = $this->file_get_the_contents($url);
$pattern = "~Attachments=([\w/.]+)~i";
$pattern2 = "~(http://images.ucomics.com/comics/[\w\d/]+\.gif)~i";
if (strpos($url,"gocomics")===false){
if (preg_match($pattern, $comiccontent, $match))
{
if($usecdn)
$imgurl = "http://comics.com.nyud.net".$match[1];
else
$imgurl = "http://comics.com".$match[1];
return $imgurl;
}
}
else
{
if (preg_match($pattern2, $comiccontent, $match))
{
$imgurl = $match[1];
if($usecdn)
$imgurl = str_replace("ucomics.com","ucomics.com.nyud.net",$imgurl);
return $imgurl;
}
}
}
}
/**
* Wrapper to retrieve content of a remote file using curl functions
*
* @param string $url
* @return string
*/
private function file_get_the_contents($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 100; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $file_contents;
}
}
?>
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