reading in a html file.

[Anon]

Hello,

could anyone help me by telling me how to read in a htm and have the contents outputed as a string varible.

something like:

fopen($file);
$string = fread(all the file);

I obviously have no idea how to do this.

thanks

[Anon]

If al you want to do is have the page read and printed to the screen, use

readfile("path/to/mypage.htm");

That will read it and print it to the screen all in one shot.

If you actually need to read it into a variable, you have a few options.

$MyArray = file("path/to/mypage.htm");

$MyArray each element in the array will conatain 1 line of the document you have read into it. This would be my prefferred method.

If you want it all in a single string variable,

$file_name = "path/to/mypage.htm";
$fd = fopen ($file_name, "r");
$my_File = fread ($fd, filesize ($file_name));
fclose ($fd);

$my_File will then hold the entire file. Since this reads to the end of the file, becareful that you know how big the file is. You wouldn't want to read a file several megs in size without knowing it. 🙂

[bryce21]

$tempArray = file("http://www.somesite.com");
$htmString = implode("", $tempArray);

or

$htmString = implode("", file("http://www.somesite.com"));

Hope this helps,
Bryce