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    copied!<p>I am trying learn PHP by actually doing something I may find useful for myself. There is a betting agency in my country which has a website where I can check if I won or not by entering a ticket number. I am trying to write a PHP script to check if range of tickets are worth anything so I don't have to enter every ticket manually on their website.</p> <p>I managed to do that. But now I want to save the response I get from their server in a file. I run into serious problems with this. I managed to save the verbose into a file but I am unable to make the script save to a file what I see on the screen inside my browser after running the script.</p> <p>Here is the code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php function check($week, $base, $startcheck, $endcheck, $verbose = "true"){ // Set file path $verbosePath = 'publicbet.txt'; echo "Saving the tickets to: &lt;b&gt;$verbosePath&lt;/b&gt;\n"; // Initiate numbering $i = 0; // Initiate publicbet.ro IP $ip = "80.86.107.93"; // Loop while ($startcheck &lt;= $endcheck){ // Generate tickkey $tickkey = $week.$base.$startcheck; // get the current server time $time = date('d-m-Y H:i:s'); // Open a new cURL resource $ch = curl_init(); // Stuff curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_STDERR,$f = fopen($verbosePath, "a")); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0"); // publicbet.ro may be checking the IP adress // from where the $tickkey is sent in order to // check for abnormalities; we will send the // IP adress of the website:) $headerarray = array( "X-Forwarded-For: $ip"); // Set the URL and other options curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://publicbet.ro/gettickinfo2.php?lang=ro&amp;tickkey='.$tickkey); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.publicbet.ro/'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headerarray); // Executing cURL curl_exec($ch); // Close cURL resource, free up system resources curl_close($ch); fclose($f); // Showing informtion $v .= "&lt;br /&gt;$i. At &lt;b&gt;$time&lt;/b&gt; the server checked the tickkey: &lt;b&gt;$tickkey&lt;/b&gt; and returned the tickket: "; if ($verbose == "true"){ echo $v; $v = ''; } // Modifying values $startcheck++; $i++; } } if ($_POST[week] &amp;&amp; $_POST[base] &amp;&amp; $_POST[startcheck] &amp;&amp; $_POST[endcheck]){ check($_POST[week], $_POST[base], $_POST[startcheck], $_POST[endcheck]); } else { ?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;publicbet.ro&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;h1&gt;Check your tickets here&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;form action="&lt;?php echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF];?&gt;" method="post"&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;week:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;base:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;start check:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;end check:&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="number" name="week" min="00" max="54" maxlength="2" size="2" value=""/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="number" name="base" maxlength="11" size="11" value=""/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="number" name="startcheck" maxlength="6" size="6" value=""/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="number" name="endcheck" maxlength="6" size="6" value=""/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Check!" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; &lt;?php } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>So please tell me if there is any method of doing what I am willing to. I would be really pleased.</p> <p>If you want to test the script use these values: week: 05 base: 16010234203 start check: 350900 end check: 350920 .</p> <p>It will return 19 false tickets and 1 true. I want all this text which is showing up to be exported to a text file rather than showing on my screen.</p> <p>Is there a way to do this?</p> <p>Thank you in advance.</p>
 

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