function _spambot_request in Spambot 6

1 call to _spambot_request()

spambot_username_validate in ./spambot.module

Validation function

File

./spambot.module, line 34

Code

function _spambot_request($url) {

  // create curl resource
  $ch = curl_init();

  // set url
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

  //return the transfer as a string
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

  // $output contains the output string
  $output = curl_exec($ch);
  if ($output === FALSE) {
    $error = curl_error($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    watchdog("spambot", t("curl returned error: @error, request: @request", array(
      "@error" => $error,
      "@request" => $url,
    )));
    return false;
  }
  curl_close($ch);
  $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($output);

  //   drupal_set_message("<pre>" . htmlentities(print_r($xml, TRUE)). "</pre>");
  if ($xml->appears == 'yes') {
    return true;
  }
  return false;
}