capture server response in a strin

[Anon]

i want to communicate with other server from my server. this is done thru html form. for the query send thru this html form, the remote server returns some respone. i want to capture this remote server response in a string on my server. so i can replace the images in the respone with other images.

can anybody help me out ?

[Anon]

Use fopen() if you aren't real serious, use fsockopen() if you are. (when dealing with a large, and I mean large, EG 1000+ connection attempts, fopen() will hang occasionally)

If you use fsockopen, make sure to use blocking and set a time limit that's reasonable - usually 5-10 seconds.

$fp=fopen('http://remotesite.com');
$in=fread($fp, 1000000); // reads 1 MB
fclose($fp);

$in now contains your text. You can then use ereg_replace or str_replace to update your images...

$in=str_replace('bad.jpg', 'good.jpg', $in);

And then display the result:

echo $in;

It's also a good idea to cache the results locally if you are talking about repeated hits to the same site.

Bugger the guys who run this site to publish the article I wrote for them on this very subject!

-Ben