JPN NRIC checker php wrapper | semak ic

This code is for educational purpose only. I don’t know whether it is legal or not.. so I just release it for an educational purpose only especially for university students who doing final year project. You can make your project look cool by integrating with live government system.. ;)

test here http://api.ibnuyahya.com/jpn.class.php
or download http://api.ibnuyahya.com/jpn.class.php.txt

/**
 * JPN NRIC wrapper
 *
 * This class created for Educational purpose only. Use on your own risk!
 *
 *
 * @owner      http://ibnuyahya.com
 * @license    GPL v2 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 * @version    1.0
 */

class jpn {

    private $jpnUrl     = 'http://www.jpn.gov.my/semakic/check.php';
    private $jpnReferer = 'http://www.jpn.gov.my/semakic/index.php';

    function __construct() {

    }

    function nricGrabber($nric = '') {
        $ckfile = tempnam("/tmp", "CURLCOOKIE");
        $post_data = "nokpt=$nric&Submit=Semak";
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->jpnUrl);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $this->jpnReferer);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $ckfile);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
        $return_data = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);

        return $return_data;
    }

    function getNric($nric = '') {
        $data = $this->nricGrabber($nric);
        $pattern = '/<table.*?>(.*?)<\/table>/';
        preg_match($pattern, $data, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE);
        $data = $matches[1][0];
        $pattern = '/<span.*?>(.*?)<\/span>/';
        preg_match_all($pattern, $data, $matches);

        return $matches[0];
    }

}

//Sample how to use it.
$ayam = new jpn();
$tekek = $ayam->getNric('790111011123');
echo '<pre>';
print_r($tekek);
echo '</pre>';

*update 29/12/2011 – this code is no longer valid since JPN changed their page and filter the result.

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Ibnuyahya merupakan seorang software developer dan freelance consultant. Berpengalaman lebih dari 10 tahun dalam membangunkan perisian dari embedded sistem menggunakan micro-controller, windows application, mobile, image processing, artificial intelligent dan akhirnya menumpukan sepenuh tenaga dalam web application.