fopen()

[Anon]

Hi all,

I've been reading up on fopen() as I want to try and retrieve a webpage and then, using string manipulation, extract parts of it and insert them into a database.

My initial tests with the function are a little odd (but this may be down to an incorrect assumption on my part)

Running the following simple code: -

<?
$website = fopen ("http://www.anysite.com/", "r");
echo ("$website");

?>

Results in the string 'Resource id #1' being returned to the screen.

Is this normal? I was sort of expecting to get the html source printed to the screen.

TIA

Chris

[Anon]

If you read the documentation, you'll know that fopen() returns a file pointer, not the actual file. To get the contents, you need to call fread().

Also, in fopen(), you should specify the file also, as in:
fopen("http://www.anysite.com/index.html/", "r");

[Anon]

Thanks Diego (again),

I did just figure that out and was about to post an 'I'm stupid/apology' message but you beat me to it!

I'm at work trying to do several things at once so I'm afraid I'm guilty of not giving 100% attention to any of these things at a time. Sorry.