/**
* Returns a stock by symbol (case-insensitively) else false if not found.
*/
function lookup($symbol)
{
// reject symbols that start with ^
if (preg_match("/^\\^/", $symbol)) {
return false;
}
// reject symbols that contain commas
if (preg_match("/,/", $symbol)) {
return false;
}
$loginpassw = 'ayush.anshul:madhepura';
$proxy_ip = '202.141.80.22';
$proxy_port = '3128';
$url = 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?f=snl1&s=' . $symbol;
$handle = curlFile($url, $proxy_ip, $proxy_port, $loginpassw);
if ($handle === false) {
// trigger (big, orange) error
trigger_error("Could not connect to Yahoo!", E_USER_ERROR);
exit;
}
$array = str_getcsv($handle, ",", '"', "\\");
if ($array[2] === "N/A" || $array[2] === "0.00") {
return false;
}
return ["symbol" => $array[0], "name" => $array[1], "price" => floatval($array[2])];
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, $proxy_port);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, 'HTTP');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy_ip);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $loginpassw);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
$loginpassw = 'ayush.anshul:madhepura';
$proxy_ip = '202.141.80.22';
$proxy_port = '3128';
$url = "http://news.google.com/news?geo={$geo}&output=rss";
$contents = curlFile($url, $proxy_ip, $proxy_port, $loginpassw);
if ($contents === false) {
http_response_code(503);
exit;
}
// parse RSS
$rss = @simplexml_load_string($contents);
if ($rss === false) {
http_response_code(500);
exit;
}
// iterate over items in channel
foreach ($rss->channel->item as $item) {
// add article to array
$articles[] = ["link" => (string) $item->link, "title" => (string) $item->title];
}
