reading a webpage into a variable

[Anon]

Is it possible to read a html page hosted on an external server into a variable? If so, what function would I use?

Thanks. Your advice will be greatly appreciated.

--Andrew

[matto]

use file:

$page = file("http://...."); // returns an array, 1 line per element
$html = implode("\n", $page);

there it is!