Get HTML from external website?

[jess_maloney]

First off, hello, Im a newbie. Lets say that I wanted to copy the HTML from a specific page that resides on an external website, say "http://www.yahoo.com/index.html" I want to copy that html source to a variable. Is there afunction for this?

Thanks in advance,
Jess Maloney

[emcb_php]

Hi,

Yes sure you can do it like this.

<?php

// This defines the url of the file
$url = "http://www.yahoo.com/index.html";
// This opens the connetcion to the file
if (!$fp = @fopen($url, "r")) {
// This is the source from yahoo
$html_from_yahoo = fgets($fp, 4096);
// Close the file
fclose($fp);
}

// Print out the source
echo($html_from_yahoo);

?>

Hope this helps,

Elfyn

[Anon]

you can also use the curl lib too