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Retrieve Random Wikipedia Page Title
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<?php | |
function randwik() | |
{ | |
#retrieves a random page title from wikipedia | |
$ch = curl_init("http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Random"); | |
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); | |
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); | |
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); | |
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 GTB7.0 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)"); | |
$content=curl_exec($ch); | |
$err=curl_error($ch); | |
curl_close($ch); | |
if ($err==0) | |
{ | |
preg_match('/<h1.*?>(.*?)<\/h1>/',$content,$matches); | |
$randwik=$matches[1]; | |
} else { | |
$randwik=""; | |
} | |
return utf8_decode($randwik); | |
} | |
echo randwik(); | |
?> |
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