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  1. <?php
  2. function getRoyalMailStatus($trackingNumber) {
  3.     // Validate tracking number format
  4.     if (!preg_match('/^[A-Z0-9]{9,13}$/i', $trackingNumber)) {
  5.         return "Error: Invalid tracking number format";
  6.     }
  7.  
  8.     $url = "https://w...content-available-to-author-only...l.com/track-your-item#/tracking-results/" . $trackingNumber;
  9.  
  10.     $ch = curl_init();
  11.  
  12.     curl_setopt_array($ch, [
  13.         CURLOPT_URL => $url,
  14.         CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  15.         CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  16.         CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36',
  17.         CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => true, // Always verify SSL
  18.         CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  19.         CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
  20.             'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8',
  21.             'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5',
  22.             'Connection: keep-alive',
  23.         ],
  24.     ]);
  25.  
  26.     $response = curl_exec($ch);
  27.     $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
  28.  
  29.     if (curl_error($ch)) {
  30.         $error = curl_error($ch);
  31.         curl_close($ch);
  32.         return "cURL Error: " . $error;
  33.     }
  34.  
  35.     curl_close($ch);
  36.  
  37.     if ($httpCode !== 200) {
  38.         return "HTTP Error: " . $httpCode;
  39.     }
  40.  
  41.     // Check if we got the actual tracking data or just a loading page
  42.     if (strpos($response, 'tracking-results') === false) {
  43.         return "Error: Unable to retrieve tracking data. The site may require JavaScript.";
  44.     }
  45.  
  46.     return parseTrackingData($response);
  47. }
  48.  
  49. function parseTrackingData($html) {
  50.     // This is a simplified parser - Royal Mail's actual structure is more complex
  51.     if (preg_match('/<div class="tracking-status">(.*?)<\/div>/s', $html, $matches)) {
  52.         return trim(strip_tags($matches[1]));
  53.     }
  54.  
  55.     if (preg_match('/<title>(.*?)<\/title>/', $html, $matches)) {
  56.         return "Status not found in page. Title: " . $matches[1];
  57.     }
  58.  
  59.     return "Unable to parse tracking information";
  60. }
  61.  
  62. // Usage
  63. $trackingNumber = "MZ396583547GB";
  64. $result = getRoyalMailStatus($trackingNumber);
  65. echo $result;
  66. ?>
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cURL Error: Could not resolve host: www.royalmail.com
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language:
PHP (php 7.3.5)
created:
14 hours ago
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