Save a remote page

lucianoes

I know how to open a remote page and even print it. Now, how do I save that page to disk? I thought I should use fwrite(), but I can't figure out how it works.

Thank you,
Luciano ES
Santos, SP - Brasil

Anon

All you need to do is:

<?php

$file = require( "http://www.someserver.com/" );
if( !fopen( "/path/to/file", "a" ) )
{
echo "Failed to open file!";
}
if( $fp = fopen( "/path/to/file", "a" ) )
{
fputs( $fp, $file, 1024 );
fclose( $fp );
}
else
{
echo "Failed to open file!";
}

If you cant open the file, there is a problem with file permissions, or with php.

Anon

If you mean you want to save the page back on the remote server, consider

<?php
fwrite('http://www.brasil.gov.br/corpo.htm',$myversion);
?>

lucianoes

By the time I came back here to see if anybody had answered, I found out by myself. My code is a little longer, though. Gonna check yours and improve mine. BTW, nice page... ;-)

I am having another problem now. The site I am trying to fetch requires cookies. I am a member and I do have cookies. I login automatically when I browse it. Is there a way to send out a cookie and be recognized?

Thank you very much,
Luciano ES
Santos, SP - Brasil

lucianoes

Elfyn, your code is not working. Apparently, it cannot be done with require(), at least not the way you suggest.

Here is the code I am using, which works:

<?php
$target = "c:path/to/file/";
$fetch = "http://www.server.com";

$fp1 = file($fetch, "r");

if (!$fetch)
{print "Ooops! Couldn't find the page!"; die;}
else
{
$content = join("", $fp1);

$fp2 = fopen($target, "w");
fwrite($fp2, $content);
}

$msg++;
}
print "done!";
?>

Anon

It's sounding like you're doing so much stuff this way that you'd be better off using fsockopen() or the cURL functions for your HTTP accesses.

lucianoes

Maybe.

The only and big drawback of using fsockopen() or cURL is that I still have no idea of how to use these. I have to use what I already know or invest some more time learning new stuff, and my site never really gets ready...

In other words: yeah, yeah, I'll open the manual and read about these new functions. What else could I do?

Thanks,
Luciano ES
Santos, SP - Brasil