PHP - Reading a Webpage

[SolarFlare]

So I'd like to be able to read the source of a foreign page http://whatever into a variable so that I can parse it and do funky things to it. How is that done?

[khp]

Use the file function
http://dk.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php

[SolarFlare]

Thanks khp.

[poolwin2001]

alternate and more lenghty way:

br = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application");
$br->visible=1;
$br->navigate('http://yoursite.com');
echo $br->Document->body->innerHTML;

[bigBA]

alternate and more lenghty way:

br = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application");
$br->visible=1;
$br->navigate('http://yoursite.com');
echo $br->Document->body->innerHTML;


so... now try to execute this script with a linux installation of webserver/apache :wave:

[Sander@the-new-world.com]

I use the following function to get the code of a document into a variable and edit it before displaying it.

file_get_contents

Kind regards,

Sander
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