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<html>
 <head>
  <title>PHP Test</title>
 </head>
 <body>

<?php

/**
* Send a GET requst using cURL
* @param string $url to request
* @param array $get values to send
* @param array $options for cURL
* @return string
*/
function curl_get($url, array $get = NULL, array $options = array())
{
    $defaults = array(
        CURLOPT_URL => $url. (strpos($url, '?') === FALSE ? '?' : ''). http_build_query($get),
        CURLOPT_HEADER => 0,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 4
    );

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($ch, ($options + $defaults));
    if( ! $result = curl_exec($ch))
    {
        trigger_error(curl_error($ch));
    }
    curl_close($ch);
    return $result;
}

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {

$st = isset($_POST['search_text']) ? $_POST['search_text'] : false;


    $init_url = "www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/single/" . $st . "?context=web";

    $data = curl_get($init_url);

    preg_match("/link\.theplatform\.com.*?m3u/", $data, $matches);

    $first_url = str_replace("\/", "/", $matches[0]);

    $second_data = curl_get($first_url);

    preg_match("/https:\/\/sbsvodns.*?=off/", $second_data, $second_url);

    $third_data = curl_get($second_url[0]);

    preg_match("/http.*?$/", $third_data, $third_url);

    $ffmpeg_1280 = str_replace("index_3", "index_0", $third_url[0]);

echo "The URL to feed to ffmpeg is: \n<br><br>";
 print $ffmpeg_1280;
echo "\n<br><br>";


} // end if form was submitted

?>

<html>
<body>
<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="search_text" placeholder="unique show ID">
</form>
</body>
</html>