Extract other HTML file into my page

Anon

Hello,

I have a very complex attempt to extract some HTML page information into my current page. The detail is as follows:

1) a HTML page (abc.html) which stored in a psswd protected directory.

2) My PHP file is located in another directory (not pswd protected)

Then I want my PHP program to do the following:
a)To accept user id + psswd for the protected directory

b) My pgm use step(a) info (id+pswd) and extract part of the HTML page (abc.html) infomation and put it into my PHP page.

Note:
i) abc.html is stored in the protected directory
ii)Only partial information of the abc.html is needed (not the whole HTML file)

Please advise HOW TO:
1) Get that pswd protected dir HTML file
2) How to extract the information that I want of that HTML file (let say I only want all the code within the <body> and </body>

Thanks...

Anon

Use fopen() or file() to get the file into a variable and then only print out the part you need.

www/protected/abc.html
www/other/this.php

**this.php***
$file = file("../protected/abc.html");
$whole_file = implode("",$file);

That gets the entire file into a string. You don't have to worry about the password protection because you're not going through http (assuming your using something like htaccess).

Then you can use some regular expression to get everything between the body tags. I'm not very good at regular expressions, though,so you'll have to find that solution yourself.

---John Holmes...