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    <p>I made a page that retrieves information from an API. It is taking about 10-20 seconds to get the response from their server. The request is done fro js through a PHP proxy to avoid cross-domain issues. I'm wondering, as the data is not like to be changing often (it is congressman's data) I might make a request daily and store it in my server so the page loads faster, I can provide a "refresh" button incase the user needs it. How can that be done? I'm just starting in web development and i see that is necessary knowledge of several different languages and frameworks, now I'm diving into js, but i got this PHP hack working for my requests, bottom line i know almost nothing of PHP yet. </p> <p><strong>[edit]</strong> ok I got the cron working! Now how do i save the document.xml from php script? I tried:</p> <pre><code>$c_t = fopen('file.xml', 'ab+'); fwrite($c_t, date('Y-m-d H:i:s')."\n\n"); //add timestamp to theverbose log fwrite($c_t,$xml); </code></pre> <p>inserted just before `curl_close($session);</p> <p>The file was saved, but only with the timestamp...</p> <p>here's what i got...</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php // PHP Proxy --- only 'GET' // Based on script from yahoo's example @ http://developer.yahoo.com/javascript/samples/proxy/php_proxy_simple.txt // tweaked by vk // hostname - just base domain define ('HOSTNAME', 'http://www.camara.gov.br'); // Get the REST call path from the AJAX application - js; $path = $_GET['yws_path1']; // assign yo url $url = HOSTNAME.$path; //Open the Curl session $session = curl_init($url); // Don't return HTTP headers. Do return the contents of the call curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true); //set user agent, that did it!!! copied from browsers... curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.76 Safari/537.36'); // The web service returns XML. Set the Content-Type appropriately header("Content-Type: text/xml"); // Make the call $xml = curl_exec($session); // done, shutDown. curl_close($session); ?&gt; </code></pre>
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