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03-02-2008, 01:13 PM

ryanwelsh

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need some help

Hi I have 100+ proxies and I am looking to create a website that has a button on it that when pressed will show a url to one of my proxys, one selected at random. I have a slight bit of kowledge with php, and I know this would not be complex at all so could someone give me a few lines of code for it.

03-02-2008, 01:49 PM

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PHP Code:


			
<?

if (isset($_POST['getproxy'])):



$urlbank = "urlbank.txt";

$urls = file_get_contents($urlbank);

$proxies = explode("\n", $urls);

$random = rand(1,count($proxies))-1;

$proxy = $proxies[$random];



echo "<a href='$proxy>$proxy</a>";



else:

?>

Hi there! Welcome to our awesome proxy network.

<br />

What are you waiting for? Click below and begin your anonymous browsing today!

<form method="post" action="whatever.php"><input type="submit" name="getproxy" value="Proxify Me!"></form> 

<?

endif;

?>

Files needed:
whatever.php
urlbank.txt (Just put a new url on each line...)

That seems to get the job done in a simple fashion, and might be of some help

03-06-2008, 02:44 PM

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Or... you could pretty much do the same thing that Toad suggested except for without a form. You could read all the proxy's and then pull a random one (Toad shows you how above) and instead of putting a form you could just create a simply text link like "Visit a Random Proxy!"

Again, Toad's code above pretty much shows you how to do it, I would just skip the form unless it's really needed. My goal is to always simplify the approach as much as possible to require as few steps as posssible.